• jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Not all of south America is latin american and the US hasnt respected non latin american sovereignty either.

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      9 days ago

      I don’t think the US has fucked with Belize, Suriname, or Guyana’s soveriegnty. Those are the only non-latin South/Central Americans.

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        8 days ago

        Guyana would disagree, given the US and CIA backed Burnham who became a dictator

        Washington, DC, April 6, 2020 – Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive.

        U.S. intelligence concluded that Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan, one of the main presidential candidates in the upcoming 1964 elections, was a communist, although not necessarily under the sway of Moscow.  Nevertheless, Kennedy decided Jagan would have to go and urged London to cooperate in the effort.  As early as mid-1962, JFK informed the British prime minister that the notion of an independent state led by Jagan “disturbs us seriously,” adding: “We must be entirely frank in saying that we simply cannot afford to see another Castro-type regime established in this Hemisphere. It follows that we should set as our objective an independent British Guiana under some other leader.”

        https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2020-04-06/cia-covert-operations-overthrow-cheddi-jagan-british-guiana-1964

        In the 80s they wanted to overthrow suriname and were training troops in French Guiana to invade suriname

        https://archive.org/details/USAPlannedInvasionInSurinameToOverthrowBouterseCNNReport

        https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp88-01070r000200720003-6