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Inventory of dictators and coupsters

Submitted March 7, 2004 - 1:01 pm by Al Giordano
re:

Who are the great leaders of South America that the USA has removed and ushered in despots?

The mysterious, anonymous, and impressively thorough blogger who goes by the name of Soj has a sidebar list of "dictators and butchers who have been financed and supported by the United States in the last 60 years."

Most, but not all, of these guys came in by US-supported coup d'etat...

Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan)
Reza Pahlavi - Shah (Iran)
Gen. Rafael Trujillo (Dom. Republic)
Anastasio Somoza (Nicaragua)
Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
Ariel Sharon (Israel)
Augusto Pinochet (Chile)
Nuri as-Said (Iraq)
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire)
Ferdinand Marcos (Phillipines)
Fulgencio Batista (Cuba)
Generalissimo Franco (Spain)
Hissene Habre (Chad)
"Baby Doc" Duvalier (Haiti)
"Papa Doc" Duvalier (Haiti)
George Papadopalous (Greece)
Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan)
Pedro Carmona (Venezuela)
Jacobo Arbenz (Guatemala)
Jorge Ubico (Guatemala)
Suharto (Indonesia)
Emir Jabir Al-Sabah (Kuwait)
General Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo (Equitorial Guinea)
Manuel Noriega (Panama)
Siad Barre (Somalia)
King Fahd (Saudi Arabia)
Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemela)
Fujimori/Montesinos (Peru)
Garardo Machado (Cuba)
Josef Stalin (Soviet Union)
Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
General Sani Abacha (Nigeria)
Idi Amin (Uganda)
Colonel Hugo Banzer (Bolivia)
Sir Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei)
General Humberto Branco (Brazil)
Chiang Kai-Shek (China)
Alfredo Christiani (El Salvador)
Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam)
General Samuel Doe (Liberia)
Mullah Omar/Taliban (Afghanistan)
King Hassan II (Morocco)
Gen. Maximiliano Martines (El Salvador)
Turgut Ozal (Turkey)
Park Chung Hee (S. Korea)
Pol Pot (Cambodia)
General Sitiveni Rabuka (Fiji)
Halie Salassie (Ethiopia)
Antonio Salazar (Portugal)
Ian Smith (Rhodesia)
Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay)
General Jorge Videla (Argentina)
Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq (Pakistan)
Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
Askar Akayev (Kyrgyzstan)
Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan)
Enomali Rahmonov (Tajikstan)
Raoul Cedras (Haiti)
Nicolae Ceausescu (Romania)

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