by Morley Evans
The United States has continuously interfered in the domestic politics of its American neighbours. This is a post-war list. Few people know that the USA has interfered with its neighbours since the beginning. Guantanamo naval station was established in Cuba (1898) to keep an eye on Haiti where "uppity niggers" had overthrown their French overlords following the French Revolution. "liberté, égalité, fraternité" didn't apply to them. Where did they get that idea? Washington didn't want anyone in the United States to get any similar ideas. The Dominican Republic maintains control by "the right" (white) people on the other two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola.
The black rulers of Haiti have done their best to keep the black underclass down. Haitian rulers like Papa Doc Duvalier only wanted to replace the French overlords with themselves while they did Washington's bidding. Read the Comedians by Graham Green. You won't laugh.
Don't forget Mexico and Canada have been invaded multiple times and Venezuela, one of the world's largest exporters of oil, was run for Standard Oil (American) and Royal Dutch Shell (British-Dutch).
When Americans debated patriating the Canal to Panama in the sixties, Senator Hayakawa famously quipped, "I don't know why we should give it back. We stole it fair and square." Hayakawa was a Japanese-Canadian!
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada used to belong to México! Panama used to be part of Colombia. Panama was created by the United States to give Washington complete control of the Panama canal. Ecuador and Bolivia have undergone "regime changes" recently that reflect the desires of Washington to get Julian Assange. Honduras became the world's first "banana republic" thanks to the "Land of the Free". El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua are controlled by the Gringos too. Read Major General Smedly Butler, USMC, if you don't believe me.
Don't forget the people who lived in North America before the Americans arrived. They had to be swept aside. They were.
Now, you understand the motivation of the American government from the beginning.
US-backed Coups in Latin America and the Caribbean 1948-2019
In Context
US-backed Coups in Latin America and the Caribbean 1948-2019
Venezuela 1948 and 2002
November 24, 1948, President Rómulo Gallegos was deposed
The coup against President Hugo Chavez fails on April 11, 2002
Paraguay 1954
In May, General Alfredo Stroessner led a coup against President Federico Chaves and installed a bloody dictatorship
Guatemala 1954
In June, a coup against Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz
The Dominican Republic 1963
In September, President John Bosch was overthrown
Brazil 1964
On March 31, a coup against President João Goulart, followed by 21 years of dictatorship
Argentina 1966 and 1976
In June of 1966, President Arturo Illia was overthrown by a coup
In 1976 another coup took place, this time against President María Estela Martínez de Perón
Bolivia 1971 and 2019
On August 21, 1971, Hugo Banzer Suárez led a coup
A coup against re-elected President Evo Morales on November 10, 2019
Uruguay 1973
Juan Maria Bordaberry, with the support of the CIA, established a de facto government
Chile 1973
A military coup against Salvador Allende, led by Augusto Pinochet with the full support of the CIA
El Salvador 1979
October 15, President Carlos Humberto Romero was overthrown, causing a civil war that lasted 12 years and left at least 70,000 dead and thousands more missing.
Panama 1989
December 20, direct intervention by more than 20,000 U.S. soldiers to overthrow the President and massacre the civilian population
Peru 1992
On April 5, President Alberto Fujimori carried out a “self-coup” in his country, with the support of the Armed Forces
Haiti 2004
On February 29, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide forced to leave the country
Honduras 2009
In June, coup staged against President Manuel Zelaya
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