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Submitted March 8, 2004 - 4:29 pm by Trevor Top
Well it depends on the topic. Are we talking about "guys (that) came in by US-supported coup d'etat" or "dictators and butchers who have been financed and supported by the United States in the last 60 years."

My point was the left gets in trouble when it blames all the ills of the world on the US and portrays it as undermining every last government on Earth. What about the democratic governments we've supported?

These two are a bit absurd:

Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
Ariel Sharon (Israel)

These two hardly got much US support:
Generalissimo Franco (Spain)
George Papadopalous (Greece)

the obvious one:
Jacobo Arbenz (Guatemala)

suspect Latin American examples:
Fujimori/Montesinos (Peru)
Colonel Hugo Banzer (Bolivia)
General Humberto Branco (Brazil)

a ridiculous bunch:
Josef Stalin (Soviet Union)
Nicolae Ceausescu (Romania)
Chiang Kai-Shek (China)
Haile Sellasie (Ethopia)

and I don't even know half the names on the list.

Let's just keep the examples rooted in Latin America and specific to overthrow.

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