Just how nice is Uncle Sam? Does he look after world democracy?$5B wisely spent to heap a Vietnam style humiliation upon the USSR. The CIA defended 'democracy' in Afghanistan by helping the warlords sell their heroin to pay for weapons, Afghan heroin now has a juicy 60% of the US market.
US intervention against the MPLA was justified on the grounds that the oil supply was threatened. The MPLA has always supplied the West. The carnage was so bad that even the right wing congress cut off funding, $40M too late. This was a US failure as in 1993 they were forced to recognise a MPLA govt.
A handy US South Pacific nuclear test site. Calls for independence have led to 10 elections, all of which the US has overturned as the results were unfavourable. Anti nuclear protesters have been beaten or gone missing.
Sovereign Norodom Sihanouk foolishly denounced US 'accidental' bombing runs into his country. In 1970 the CIA installed Lon Nol and US bombing raids killed 600,000 Cambodians and led to a civil war which allowed the crazed dictator Pol Pot to seize power.
Prior to US interference this was the oldest democracy in South America. When socialist Salvador Allande came to power in 1970 the CIA went to work. Terrorism and economic sanctions led to a coup in which the vicious dictator General Pinochet seized power and used CIA lists to round up and murder, 'extremists'.
The list here is just too long, with the number of attempts on Fidel Castro's life well into double figures. Another humiliating failure as Castro holds power despite the illegal CIA terrorist tactics.
In 1962 elections brought communist Bosch to power, as he supported democracy he was given the boot and a series of US backed murderous regimes has reigned ever since.
In 1967 George Papandreou was elected president, as his son was a bit left wing the CIA had George removed to halt this red menace.
In 1979 Maurice Bishop came to power and refused to join the embargo against Cuba, even worse were his views about wanting a fair distribution of income in the country. The CIA set about upsetting the country, eventually unrest broke out, Bishop was killed and the US had to intervene to save the US 'hostages'. Luckily there were 43 Cuban soldiers on the island for the marines to murder.
In 1951 Jacobo Arbenz was elected by a massive landslide. The CIA replaced this free thinker with their stooge, General Castillo Armas at a cost of only 100,000 lives over the next 40 years.
After many 20 years of failure the CIA ousted the highly respected Sukarno and replaced him with General Suharto who promptly butchered 500,000 to 1,000,000 suspected communists using CIA hit lists. Since 1975 almost 33% of the population of East Timor, unlucky enough to have vast oil reserves, have been killed. The US turns a blind eye.
In 1953 the CIA ousted the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh and installed the Shah as a puppet. The people were rightly outraged and I think we know the rest.
In 1948 the CIA began Operation Gladio, training 15,000 brown shirts to wage a civil war should a left wing government win power.
The most bombed country in the world as the US dropped 2,000,000 tons on a country with which it was not at war. The CIA recruited 40,000 men to attack the left wing Pathet Lao. Thankfully the CIA failed and the PL came to power in 1975.
A US success as this poor nation was "pressured until it said Uncle" and after years of CIA terrorism the people finally voted for a US backed candidate.
Noriaga has been a long time friend of the CIA, his drug trafficking was ignored until he showed signs of disobedience. His evil drug dealing had therefore to be stopped at a cost of only 3,000 civilian lives.
In 1960 Leftist Patrice Lumumba became Zaire's first prime minister. He was too left for the US and was replaced with Joseph Mobutu who promptly dissolved his predecessor in acid.
