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The bill trades some U.S. diplomatic and rapid-enforcement leverage for reduced unilateral coercion and greater accountability, aiming to lessen humanitarian harms abroad and enhance sovereignty while risking more complicated diplomacy, slower threat responses, and domestic political backlash.
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean would face less U.S. unilateral intervention, increasing their sovereignty and enabling more independent democratic governance.
Low-income civilians and immigrant communities in targeted countries would likely experience reduced economic harm because the bill limits unilateral sanctions and emergency powers that can damage local economies and humanitarian conditions.
Human-rights advocates and the public would gain from greater accountability as the bill calls out past abuses and names agencies (e.g., CIA, DOJ, IMF, OAS), increasing pressure for policy reforms to protect rights abroad.
U.S. state and local governments (and U.S. foreign policy interests) could lose diplomatic leverage and find relations with Latin American and Caribbean partners more complicated if the bill repudiates past policies and constrains coercive tools.
Taxpayers and national security practitioners could face higher risk from slower or reduced U.S. capacity to respond rapidly to transnational criminal threats or authoritarian abuses if sanction and emergency authorities are curtailed.
Federal employees and the broader public could see increased domestic political polarization and procedural pushback (including legal or budgetary challenges) as the bill publicly accuses agencies and officials, potentially delaying reforms.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Expresses congressional repudiation of historic and recent U.S. interventions, sanctions, and covert actions in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Official title: Calling for the annulment of the Monroe Doctrine and the development of a "New Good Neighbor" policy in order to foster improved relations and deeper, more effective cooperation between the United States and its Latin American and Caribbean neighbors.
Introduced February 10, 2026 by Nydia M. Velázquez · Last progress February 10, 2026
Repudiates two centuries of U.S. interventions, sanctions, and covert actions in Latin America and the Caribbean and calls for rejecting policies the resolution says have harmed democracy, human rights, and regional stability. It names historical doctrines and specific operations and criticizes recent administration actions, including sanctions, alleged election interference, and an asserted unauthorized military attack and abduction related to Venezuela. The measure is declaratory: it catalogs past policies and recent events, expresses disapproval, and asserts the need to repudiate these practices and their consequences for the region and U.S. foreign policy.