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However the US' traditional role as the sole hegemonic power of the Americas has been challenged / limited by [[Cuba]] during the Cold War ([[Cuban Missile Crisis]], Fidel Castro); as well as the more recent Venezuela crisis.
=== The Middle East as a new American backyard
A number of European commentators have contended that US foreign policy in the Middle East has (intentionally or otherwise) had the effect of turning the Middle East into America's new "backyard": a new epicenter within which the US is trying to exhort influence on political developments through regime change and political pressure which resembles past US actions in Latin America.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://mondediplo.com/2007/11/03mideast| title = The United States' new backyard |accessdate=2010-02-28| author = Alain Gresh|date=2007-11-03
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