US backed coups in South America. Paraguay 1954. Ecuador 1961 & 1963.  Brazil 1964. Bolivia 1971. Chile 1973. Uruguay 1973. Argentina 1976. Venezuela 2026.

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[–] 62 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Venezuela is incorrect: it's not a US*-backed* coup, it's a US coup period.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    Then they ask why people come to America. A lot of Latin America wouldn't be in the US if the US just minded their own business and left Latin America alone.

    US, you are the reasons for mass migration to the US.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    How did Peru and Colombia dodge the democracy™

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    And all of them turned out great!

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Live your myth in America! Where coups and attacking other countries is normal. After all it not the citizens, it's the government and the companies.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Fifty years without US-backed coups until Trump.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You just gotta scroll up a bit. Nicaragua and Guatemala were in the 80s, absolutely the stuff of nightmares ten times worse than what Trump is doing. We almost certainly sponsored an attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, and a successful one in Honduras under Obama.

    You're not wrong that Trump is a horrifying new chapter. It is testament to the semblance of humanity that the US State Department slowly developed post-2000 that, yes, Trump is a return to a much more barbaric and brazen time of US foreign policy, with worse surely on the horizon. But we never really stopped being the bad guys, we just got a little more subtle and less overtly violent about it, until now.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Hands all over the Southern border
    You know what I think we're falling
    From composure

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    This doesn’t seem like a coup or even a us backed coup just yet. It may well end up being one. Right now it seems like a kidnapping and extortion.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I don’t know why, but this reminds me of the monopoly game from McDonald’s.

    Just a few more value meals…

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    The latest coup i think this should read.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago

    US related coups

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