History of U.S. Incursions in Latin America

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13095456.htm

One wonders whether Bush has any clue as to the number of assaults by U.S. Marines and other disruptive tactics inflicted on Latin American countries in the last century in defense of American corporate domination there. Just to cite one example, the removal of Jacobo Arbenz from Guatemala by our CIA http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/guatemal.htm initiated brutal right wing domination of that poor country, now pretty much still in disarray with some 200,000 dead as the long term consequence. Check out United Fruit which objected to Arbenz temerity in challenging its monopoly there as the grounds for branding him a leftist to be removed in the interest of the U.S.

http://www.mayaparadise.com/ufc1e.htm

This is a tale that has been repeated in nearly every Latin American country -- the juntas run by military officers trained in our School of the Americas: http://www.soaw.org/new/
As recently as the late 1970s and early 1980s these characters were 'disappearing' thousands in Brazil and Argentina: http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/eng.html

And then there was our replacement of Allende with Pinochet in Chile:

http://www.neravt.com/left/allende.htm

Or the stage setting for the arrival of Castro in Cuba following our occupations and emplacements of such as Batista there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

By some counts the U.S. played this game -- interventions, assassinations, and the Marines as a last resort -- more than 100 times over the decades in support of repressive regimes scarcely forgotten by any but us Americans:

http://www.zompist.com/latam.html

http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/resources/interventions.html

Did Bush learn of any of this during his frat days at Yale? Perhaps his CIA head daddy filled him in?

http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/bush.html

One must be constantly amazed that the American public has been so little aware of our history of abuses of Latin Americans -- which, of course, are stage center for them and which have them cheering loudly for our current in-our-face tormentor there, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela -- with all that oil.
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