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Latin America

VA_Jill

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1. Not surprised

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Oct 23, 2020, 05:18 PM

Oct 2020

The US has sponsored this kind of shit as long as I can remember, and longer. Look up Nicaragua. Look up United Fruit and you will know where the term "banana republic" came from. This is just the latest offense. Nothing is new under the sun. Which does not make it right, of course.

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