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united states of the americas (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This map is incomplete.

  • the 1968 coup that ousted President Fernando Belaúnde Terry from Peru

  • La Violencia in Colombia

  • the US economic Blockade of Guyana in the 1970s, along with several CIA interventions.

  • the US backed the Dictatorship in Surinam until a Coup in 1980, and sent military aid to support the regime through the resulting conflict.

As for French Guiana - this may be our single exception, as the French did all the Horrors there, and the US "respected their claim".

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Also Surinam. The Dutch received it as part of a trade with the British and as far as I know the U.S. didn’t interfere with the (brutal) Dutch colonial rule.

    EDIT: I just had a mental vision of some idiot in the White House confusing the Dutch and the Danish and proposing invading Suriname to trade it for Greenland.

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