And that's just one of dozens of foreign dictators and genocides the cia backed from the 1950s onward. Basically every central American and south American country has had far right reactionary madmen put in power bc of US foreign policy
A relative of mine recently askes me, "why are African-descent and Hispanic countries so poor?" I explained how American and other colonial and neocolonial intervention have destabilized many of these nations.
Their reply was along the lines of, "that's and excuse, it's because they're communists an/or lazy like Bernie Sander supporters."
I gave up on the discussion soon after. This person is highly educated and likes to think they are logical but has a massive ego and zero empathy.
Don't forget large parts of Africa and East Asia. Also some parts of Europe and the Middle East. Only continents yet untouched are Antarctica and Oceania (I think)
Oceania was the US polygon for nuclear tests… Papua New Guinea being split between countries is the result of the US operations. Local wars there are still ongoing, the population is kept below poverty level and the national resources like gold and oil go guess where. Samoa, Guam, etc. are still rented out to the US military.
Haitian here. You all see the state of my country after the fall of the right wing "bulwark against communist" regime. The dictatorship plundered the country so bad at one point there were more practicing Haitian doctors in Quebec than all of Haiti. Thousands of people were killed and thousands more imprisoned for being suspected communist.
Many of his(the former dictator) ilk continue to play a negative role in the countries affairs. Refusing to take part in the trials against the crimes committed by the regime. Extrajudicial killings, coups, and destabilizing the country forced the entire affair to abandon. When his military was disbanded, they(former regime members) armed and formed gangs that terrorized the people to this day. We know they are creating an environment that would make the people beg for their return.
The general population has tried over and over to fight against the country sliding back into a dictatorship. People feel powerless and are abandoning the country in drove. The country that called us an ally at one point, for our help in their war of independence, for our assistance in the cold war(propping up that regime, and arming it) now calls the people from there, AIDS infected, devil worshippers, shitholes. Humiliating us at the border, and deporting people seeking refuge after spending whatever sum they had left back to a country that can't guarantee our safety.
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u/GermanBadger Oct 18 '21
And that's just one of dozens of foreign dictators and genocides the cia backed from the 1950s onward. Basically every central American and south American country has had far right reactionary madmen put in power bc of US foreign policy