FORMATION OF THE PROJECTION OF GLOBAL INTERESTS ON LATIN AMERICA

Abstract

The article examines the historical relations between Latin America and foreign countries, focusing on the "conquest", colonial and post-colonial periods, analyzes the long-term influence of colonialism on the development of Latin America. It highlights how external forces shaped the region's political and economic systems, leaving a legacy of social stratification and economic dependence. The first part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the complex and ambiguous process of conquest and its impact on the formation of Latin America as a region, demonstrating the fundamentality, duality and legacy of the aforementioned process. The second part of the article analyzes in detail the economic-political system and social structure of colonial Latin America, formed under the influence of the metropolises, and demonstrates what consequences it had for the future independent states. The third part of the article analyzes the process of gaining independence by the countries of Latin America, emphasizing that although internal contradictions in colonial societies were an important factor, it was the weakening of the metropolises and the external intervention of other states that played a decisive role in the successful conclusion of the wars of independence. And at the very end, an analysis of the economic dependence of Latin American countries on external players in the period after gaining independence, which was a consequence of its colonial legacy. Describes the emergence of new interested players in the arena: Great Britain and the United States, emphasizes that the debt problem led to defaults and deepening economic addiction. In general, the article argues that the historical experience of foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Latin America has had a lasting impact on the development of the region. The legacy of colonialism, the debt cycle, and foreign interventions continue to shape the political, economic, and social realities of Latin American countries.