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House lawmakers of Cuban-American descent are pushing back against progressives\u2019 efforts to eliminate the Monroe Doctrine, a 200-year-old U.S. policy that categorizes political intervention in the Western Hemisphere by countries outside of it as an act of hostility.<\/p>\n

A group of leftists led by Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, D-N.Y., introduced a new resolution this week calling for the Monroe Doctrine to be formally annulled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She called the policy \u2018outdated and ineffective.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018For more than 200 years, the United States has used the Monroe Doctrine to justify a paternalistic, damaging approach to relations with Latin America and the Caribbean,\u2019 Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., one of the bill\u2019s sponsors, said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018As a result, the legacy of our nation\u2019s foreign policy in those regions is political instability, deep poverty, extreme migration and colonialism. It is well past time we change our approach.\u2019<\/p>\n

But Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., and Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital the centuries-old policy was critical to stability in the region.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Monroe Doctrine is one of the most important foreign policy strategies the United States has ever developed. Today, threats to our security and liberty no longer come from London, Paris or Madrid, but from Beijing, Moscow and Tehran,\u2019 Salazar told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

\u2018Communist and authoritarian powers abroad are colluding with our enemies in the Americas by selling them weapons and propping them up economically.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rather than scuttling it, she called on the U.S. to \u2018renew our commitment to the Monroe Doctrine and keep our hemisphere free of intervention from overseas.\u2019<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Salazar led a bill aimed at affirming U.S. support for the Monroe Doctrine.<\/p>\n

Gimenez, one of the bill\u2019s co-sponsors, said he knew firsthand why U.S. dominance was needed across North, Central and South America.<\/p>\n

\u2018I lost my native homeland of Cuba to a brutal communist dictatorship that continues to oppress the Cuban people and exports socialist terrorism across the region,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018In my community, we understand firsthand that the Western Hemisphere is safer, more prosperous and freer when the United States takes a proactive role and actively engages with our regional partners.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Monroe Doctrine dictates that the U.S. government will oppose any military or political intervention in any country in the Western Hemisphere by a nation outside of it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken on new significance in recent years. Although it was implemented as a blockade against European colonialism, it\u2019s been referenced \u2014 particularly during the Trump administration \u2014 as China seeks to expand its influence in South America.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But critics, primarily on the left, have said it perpetuates an imbalanced power dynamic between the U.S. and its neighbors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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