The
Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was signed on
December 26,
1933 by most states in the Americas. At the
1933 Montevideo Conference, President
Franklin Roosevelt and
United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull[?] declared American oppostion to armed intervention in inter-American affairs, attempting to reverse the perception of Yankee imperialism, the so-called
Good Neighbor Policy[?].