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The US has been involved in election coups for ages (Original Post) malaise Jul 2024 OP
In my opinion the worst case of U.S. interference was Tennessee Hillbilly Jul 2024 #1
There have been so many malaise Jul 2024 #2
We beat the hornet's nest all over the world. CrispyQ Jul 2024 #3
You nailed it malaise Jul 2024 #4
1. In my opinion the worst case of U.S. interference was
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 09:24 AM
Jul 2024

the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile in 1973:

This was a military coup against the democratically-elected Chilean president Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government. It was carried out by a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet. There is strong evidence that the CIA helped facilitate the coup.

malaise

(297,947 posts)
2. There have been so many
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 09:30 AM
Jul 2024

But Chile was clearly one of the worst.

By the way there’s a new interesting report in Guyana’s Stabroek News showing that Britain offered to cede then British Guiana to the US as part of war debt.

CrispyQ

(41,098 posts)
3. We beat the hornet's nest all over the world.
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 10:11 AM
Jul 2024
A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present

by William Blum
Z magazine , June 1999

https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html

The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:

* making the world safe for American corporations;

* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;

* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;

* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."


This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.

The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.

~much more at link


The remaining article is a list of US interference in other countries' elections & governments from 1945-1999. Blum died in 2018 but his books received renewed interest when Osama Bin Laden said all Americans should read him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/obituaries/william-blum-dead.html

In an interview with The Washington Post in 2006, Mr. Blum encapsulated his life’s mission as “ending, at least slowing down, the American Empire,” or “at least injuring the beast.”

Still, no one was more surprised than he when a recording emerged in 2006 on which Osama bin Laden recommended that all Americans read Mr. Blum’s book “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower,” first published in 2000 and updated in 2005. It vaulted almost overnight from about 205,000 on Amazon’s sales ranking to the top 50. (It stood at about 58,000 a few days after Mr. Blum’s death.)

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