Cold War episode 19 – Backyard 1954-1990
Cold War episode 19 – Backyard 1954-1990: The United States has always regarded Latin America as its own backyard. Fearing the spread of communism, it seeks to destabilize leftist governments. In 1973, the CIA helps overthrow the Chilean president Salvador Allende; in the 1980’s it support right wing extremists in Nicaragua and El Salvador. The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in different Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests, and secretly plotted with military strongmen and middle class interests concerned with the land reforms and nationalisation policies of new governments. In Guatemala […]
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