Since the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, at least one-third of what is currently the United States and what is known as Latin America have been shaped initially by U.S. pro-slavery expansionist policies and later by big American corporations, which promoted thousands of inventions and bloody dictatorships in the name of freedom and democracy over the last 200 years. Americans and Hispanics in the U.S. have tended to accept this convenient "freedom and democracy" narrative over the facts. It is time to start saying the inconvenient truth rather than waiting for another two centuries.