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U.S. Interventionism
Interventionism has a detrimental impact: it starts civil wars, kills hundreds of thousands, generates migrant crises, fuels poverty and gang violence, and supports dictators.
- Vice: Kazdin 18 (various sources included)
- Central American devastation and refugee crisis was created or at least helped by the** US’s interference in those countries** going back decades
- 1954 Guatemala CIA Coup (Elizabeth Oglesby, professor of Latin American studies, University of Arizona)
- Overthrew democratic government
- continued to train the Guatemalan military well into the 70s
- an estimated 200,000 were killed
- Sparked a 36-year-long civil war
- hundreds of thousands of people were displaced
- Late 70s US Opposition in Nicaragua
- A Nicaraguan resistance group overthrew the country’s dictatorship that had been in power for over 40 years
- the US opposed the revolution, backed the dictatorship, and supported the Contra rebels
- El Salvador, Cold War Era (Xochitl Sanchez of the Central American Resource Center, Los Angeles)
- The US amplified its presence in the region in order to defeat the guerrillas of the FMLN
- Created the rampant and bloody gang violence, dire poverty, displacement and migration from El Salvador.
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This is just a brief overview of some of the U.S.’ most famous Latin American interventions. RockyDerFailure#6781 has a MASSIVE list of a variety of worldwide interventions here.