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200 years after the promulgation of one of the most important and influential dogmas for the foreign policy of the United States, we are talking about the Monroe Doctrine released on December 2, 1823, little is known about the first of its political reinterpretations that arose from end of the 19th century and that would be eclipsed by the following reinterpretation formulated by who would be one of the most versatile presidents of the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, we are talking about Theodore Roosevelt and his corollary of Roosevelt, whose ideological support of the latter we can to be found in the approaches of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan in 1890, although the President of the United States Rutherford Hayes had visualized long before Admiral Mahan the importance of having the construction of an interoceanic canal by any route through the American isthmus under United States control. (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, 2023), hence the acquisition of the unfinished works of the canal built by the French in Panama will be a matter of state for the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, given its geopolitical and geostrategic importance. for the foreign policy of the United States that would develop in the 20th century.
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