OK, whatever. You made a BS claim about "below average" and now want to move the goal posts. Fine. I'd suggest our policy in Latin America was as is typical about money, money, money, power, power, power. Had nothing to do with "freedom of religion" at all. You might have an argument not facially ridiculous if you asserted this country found it easier to impose our will because of religious discrimination, religious intolerance, against Catholics. I don't buy that but the idea our actions often supporting dictators to our south was motivated by 'freedom of' religion is just nonsense.
And if you want to talk about religion and Latin America, start with Columbus, agent of the Catholic Church, and the genocide that followed his "discovery" of "America."
There's nothing BS about seeing how Catholics are below average there.
I didn't say it was about money.
I said it was about freedom of religion.
The Texan Revolution was about how a bunch of particularist Baptist slaveholding migrants refused to comply with Mexico's Constitutional mandate of belonging to the Roman Catholic Church. Those migrants insisted on having the right to judge others' good works instead of realizing how good works reveal themselves in mysterious ways.
Manifest Destiny was based on how people believed Americans had a predestined calling to dominate the North American continent.
The Roosevelt Corollary was based on Roosevelt's own Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed faith combined with the Progressive Social Gospel established in those faiths. We know this because Roosevelt was a pragmatist (not to mention Reformed faith is not only pragmatic, but the source of (American) pragmatism) such that he should be judged not based on his officially stated policies, but based on the consequences of those policies.
The consequences of his policies were he targeted the Catholic Spanish Empire first before targeting the rest of Catholic Latin America.
We can see this especially when it comes to how his cohort, Taft, advocated interventions in Mexico which provoked the Mexican Revolution and explicitly anti-Catholic Cristero War.
What should drive us nuts here is historically, the Dutch revolted against the Spanish because of religion, but not only did Spain go through its own revolts through the Carlist Wars, but the Latin American colonies revolted against Spain as well.
Roosevelt should have seen his targets as no longer carrying the same attitude as the monarchs who oppressed his homeland's republic centuries prior, but he didn't. He counter-generalized against those who didn't generalize in the first place, but rather believed in treating people with respect in general.