Abstract

Life and Property in the Caribbean: II. Protection of Property

This article focuses on protection of property. In examining the case for the protection of American property, there appear reasons for suspecting that it is the Latin-American republics which need protection against the Americans owning property within their borders rather than the reverse. There is the case of Edward L. Doheny. Doheny was for a dozen years at the front of every movement for intervention in Mexico, with Albert B. Fall as his mouth-piece in the United States Senate and in the Cabinet. Harry F. Sinclair also has been an ardent supporter. Both Doherty and Sinclair have large property interests in Mexico, and Doheny's have been much larger than they are now. Both have large property interests in the United States, though both have suffered recent reverses.