[News] 10 of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America

Thu Jun 9 15:31:59 EDT 2016

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  10 of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America

The United States has been intervening covertly and overtly in many 
countries since the late 1800s, however the CIA's first black ops date 
back to the World War II after Harry S. Truman signed the act by which 
the agency was created on July 26, 1947.

Faces of war. These men and many more were trained by the CIA to carry 
out a bloody coup in Guatemala in 1954.

The Central Intelligence Agency is responsible for terrorism, 
assassinations, military coups and rebellions around the globe and has 
deceitfully used many NGOs guised as organisms that promote human 
rights, democracy, freedom and economic development, including USAID, 
NED and IRI, just to mention a few.

    *IN DEPTH:
    CIA in Ecuador
    <http://www.telesurtv.net/english/telesuragenda/CIA-in-Ecuador-20160605-0027.html>*

Their true objective is imperialist in nature. The U.S. has interest in 
every country, be it for its natural resources, cheap labor force or 
because of its strategic geographical location.

In order to meet its goals, the CIA recruits influential, intellectual 
and charismatic personalities. The agency also resorts to threats, 
kidnapping, torture, enforced disappearances and assassinations. The 
organization incites violence, uprisings and military rebellion, and 
causes economic chaos and misery to the people through scarcity of basic 
foods and so on.

The CIA has been exposed on a number of occasions through documented 
evidence, leaks of information and whistleblowing by active and former 
agents.

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*1. 1954 in Guatemala*

In 1944, the violent U.S.-backed dictatorship of Jorge Ubico was 
overthrown by a popular uprising. The people of Guatemala were sick and 
tired of the brutal injustices of his regime, although in reality Ubico 
was merely a puppet of The United Fruit Company, which obeyed 
Washington's orders. They basically enslaved the population. They 
stripped campesinos and Indigenous people of their lands and forced them 
to work their own parcels and paid them bread crumbs. Those who dared to 
disobey were brutally punished by a police force working for the U.S. 
agricultural company.

The victory of the uprising brought peace to the country but it only 
took 10 years for U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower to implement a plan 
to overthrow the government.

In 1954, the CIA launched the so-called PBSuccess operation. The 
country's capital Guatemala City was bombed by U.S. warplanes. The young 
Ernesto “Che” Guevara was there and witnessed the ordeal first hand. 
Hundreds of campesinos leaders were executed and many campesino and 
Mayan Indigenous communities were completely wiped out. The brutal CIA 
intervention wasn't complete until 200,000 had been killed. U.S. 
companies were again enjoying huge profits in the Central American 
country and Washington was happy.

*U.S.-backed and financed military tyrants of Guatemala 1954 *

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*2. 1959 in Haiti*

Haiti is equally strategic to the United States as are the Dominican 
Republic and Cuba. So, Washington doesn't hesitate when their brutal 
control appears to wane in the Caribbean. Under no circumstance, would 
the U.S. allow governments in the region to lean to the left, and if 
they dare to, the CIA steps in to push them back to the right. Of 
course, Cuba is a rare example of resilience to U.S. efforts to achieve 
hegemony in the area. Since 1959, the Cuban revolution of Fidel Castro 
has repealed the relentless U.S. attacks.

    *OPINION:
    US Court Dismisses 8,700 Haitian Lives
    <http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/US-Court-Dismisses-8700-Haitian-Lives-20150122-0034.html>*

But in Haiti, the story is different. In 1959 as well, popular 
discontent rose against the brutal puppet of the U.S., Francois 
Duvalier. The CIA stepped in and stomped it immediately. With the help 
of the intelligence agency, Duvalier wasted no time and created an army 
to violently repress all those who rose up against him. He and his heir 
to the regime, Jean Claude Duvalier, ordered massacres that were so 
horrendous they defy words. Over 100,000 people were murdered. And in 
1986, when a new but uncontrollable rebellion took over, a U.S. Air 
Force plane rescued Jean Claude and took him to France so he could live 
in peaceful luxury.

*U.S. puppet Francois Duvalier—a CIA murderer*

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*3. 1964 in Brazil*

The year of 1964 was one of incredible transformation in Brazil. 
Democratically-elected President Joao Goulart implemented his “Plan of 
Basic Reforms.” Even though the U.S. had exerted much of its power 
through ensuring people weren't lifted from ignorance and illiteracy, 
Brazil implemented real changes that made Washington very uncomfortable. 
Firstly, a tax reform was put in place that would hugely carve into the 
profits of the multinational corporations of the United States and its 
allies. Washington was also very unhappy with a reform by which land 
would be given back to their legitimate owners and would redistribute 
other lands to poor people.

It was now time to send in the CIA to take action against the government 
of Goulart, which they did in 1964. They put in power a brutal 
dictatorship that lasted 19 years. During this regime, thousands were 
tortured and hundreds executed. The CIA also made sure all those leaders 
who had leftist tendencies were eliminated, specially Marxists.

*Joao Goulart's mistake was carving into U.S. companies' profits for the 
good of his people.*

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*4. 1969 in Uruguay*

During the sixties, revolutionary movements spread through Latin 
America. Uruguay was drowned in crises. United States saw influential 
socialist leaders emerge in this South American nation. For example the 
urban revolutionary guerrilla known as the Tupamaros. Jose “Pepe” Mujica 
was part of it and so was his wife Lucia Topolansky. Washington became 
obsessed with eliminating them, fearing the influence and power they 
were achieving.

    *ANALYSIS:
    Marking Brazil's Brutal US-Backed Military Coup 52 Years Later
    <http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Marking-Brazils-Brutal-US-Backed-Military-Coup-52-Years-Later-20160331-0029.html>*

Nelson Rockefeller went to Uruguay to observe first hand how they were, 
generating a growing anti-Yankee sentiment. He returned to Washington to 
alert authorities that something needed to be done urgently. Of course, 
the CIA responded immediately. They sent their special agent Dan 
Mitrione. He trained security forces in the art of torture and other 
highly macabre practices that are indescribable in nature. And then the 
CIA put in power Juan Maria Bordaberry and his military dictatorship. He 
ruled under direct order from Washington the next 12 years, during which 
he killed hundreds of people and tortured tens of thousands more. 
Repression was so brutal and Uruguayans were so traumatized and fearful 
they no longer carried out their traditional dances, which symbolize 
happiness and victory.

*Pepe Mujija bravely fought off U.S. attempts to annihilate socialist 
leaders in Uruguay, and survived.*

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*5. 1971 in Bolivia*

The vast Latin American natural resources are the envy of the greedy and 
powerful politicians of the United States, who resort to any means to 
control them for their own benefit, and never for the people and 
countries they brutally exploit. During decades, U.S. multinational 
corporations enslaved people in vast regions of Chile, Bolivia and Peru. 
When those living under slavery conditions dared to rebel against their 
oppressors, they were annihilated in bulk. Che Guevara felt compelled to 
go to Bolivia and help the people rise in revolution.

This was 1967. By then, U.S. mining companies had enslaved entire 
communities, including children, who they banned from school. Two years 
later, Che Guevara was murdered by the CIA. Once out of their way, CIA 
officials established a military regime.

However, the people again turned on Washington. General Juan Jose Torres 
took power and implemented reforms to benefit workers and those living 
in poverty. Hope returned to Bolivia and its people, but the CIA would 
not allow this to continue. The agency recruited General Hugo Banzer. He 
led the coup against Torres and in 1971, he kicked off his violent 
dictatorship. He ordered the torture of a number of opposition leaders 
and the execution of hundreds of influential political leaders. He sent 
about 8,000 other leaders to jail. Washington was happy.

*The revolutionary face of resistance against U.S. homicidal 
interventions. Two years after leading a rebellion against Washington's 
intervention in Bolivia, Che Guevara was murdered. *

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*6. 1973 in Chile*

Chile was another country brutally exploited by U.S. corporations. 
Washington made sure the people lived in utter misery. The CIA used 
different tactics but the results were the same. The agency led a smear 
campaign against the government of Chile, as it is currently doing in 
Venezuela. They used national and international media to demonize 
President Salvador Allende. They made sure people who had once been 
loyal to him because of his benevolent way of governing turned on him.

    *RELATED:
    Chile Asks US to Extradite Pinochet-Era Killers of UN Diplomat
    <http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Chile-Asks-US-to-Extradite-Pinochet-Era-Killers-of-UN-Diplomat-20160517-0036.html>*

How you ask?The same way they're doing it in Venezuela. By causing 
scarcity through extortion, through torture, imprisonment, enforced 
disappearances and by assassinating all those who refused to bow to 
them. Washington was irritated beyond control after Allende nationalized 
natural resources. They were also annoyed because Allende built houses 
for those who couldn't afford homes. He made sure his people had access 
to education. When Allende's popularity was successfully undermined, the 
next step was to plan a coup against him. It would now be easy. And Sep. 
11, 1973, Gen. Augusto Pinochet led the military all the way to the 
presidential palace with the backing of the CIA, who provided him with 
all the necessary weapons and armored vehicles.

War planes dropped bombs on the palace. Before he died, Allende told his 
people: “I will not give up! Placed in a historic transition, I will pay 
for the loyalty of the people with my life. And I tell you with 
certainty that the which we have planted in the good conscience of 
thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They 
are strong and they may be able to dominate us, but the social processes 
cannot be halted nor with crime nor by force.”

Pinochet ruled for 17 years. He jailed 80,000 people, tortured 30,000 
and murdered 3,200.

*Another victim of the many coups on democracy carried out by the United 
States: Salvador Allende. *

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*7. 1976 in Argentina*

Argentines endured arguably the bloodiest dictatorship of South America. 
It was so terrible that reading about it can be traumatic. Concentration 
camps, torture centers, massacres, massive rape of women and children, 
the beating of pregnant women, and the execution of boys and girls. In 
total, 30,000 people were executed. Behind it all: the CIA.

In 1973, Argentina was going through a political crisis so grave that 
President Juan Peron collapsed and ultimately died of a heart attack in 
1974. His wife, Eva Peron, took power only to confront conflicts 
everywhere, even within her own Peronist party.

The CIA waited like a cat hunting its prey until 1976, when the 
situation they themselves provoked was so bad their intervention would 
be a walk in the park. Of course, as usual, a key recruitment was in 
order. The name, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla. The next step ... obvious ... 
a coup d'etat in yet another Latin American nation, and again another 
dictatorship at the service of the United States. This time, the 
nefarious Henry Kissinger would be in charge of supervising the brutal 
regime. The rest is history: genocide, massive human rights violations, 
enforced disappearances, child theft, among other heinous crimes. All 
this, with the approval of the hypocritical and shameless owners of 
power in Washington.

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*8. 1980 in El Salvador*

The people of this Central American country suffered no less than 
Argentina under the U.S. intervention that was carried out by you know 
who: the CIA. Washington had already backed a brutal dictatorship that 
lasted 50 years from 1931 to 1981. Campesinos and Indigenous were 
smashed without mercy. More than 40,000 were massacred.

    *ANALYSIS:
    Bay of Pigs, the CIA's Biggest Fiasco, 55 Years Later
    <http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Bay-of-Pigs-the-CIAs-Biggest-Fiasco-55-Years-Later-20150416-0042.html>*

Things were so bad a rare incident occurred. The Catholic church tried 
to intervene in favor of the poor and oppressed. At this point in time, 
El Salvador was controlled by 13 mafia-style families who had 
expropriated about half of the national territory. The 13 families were 
closely linked to, guess who? That's right! Washington. And the CIA, 
just in case, made sure the military was very well trained in everything 
horrific.

They were provided with all the right lethal equipment. And when the CIA 
found out that Jesuits were helping out the masses, they made sure they 
were killed. They also asked Pope John Paul II to speak to Archbishop 
Óscar Arnulfo Romero to try to persuade him to desist. Romero refused to 
comply and so they murdered him when he was officiating mass in 1980. 
When the U.S. intervention was over, 75,000 people were reported 
murdered, but the U.S. was at peace.

*Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero broke with Catholic tradition by caring 
for the poor. He paid for it with his life. *

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*9. 1989 in Panama*

Another unprecedented incident occurs in this Central American country. 
A CIA agent rises to power as a dictator in the form of Manuel 
“Pineapple Face” Noriega. Washington's interest here, among others, is 
the inter-oceanic canal.

When President Omar Torrijos tried to take over control of the Panama 
Canal, the CIA planted a bomb on his plane and that was the end of that.

In 1983, Noriega took power. He was a drug trafficker for the CIA. He 
had been for some 30 years. That was fine with Washington. He was of 
huge service to them. In fact, he was instrumental in the Iran-Contra 
affair, by which the CIA circumvented Congress' prohibition to provide 
the Nicaraguan contras with weapons to be used against the leftist 
Sandinista movement. Noriega helped with cocaine to be sent mainly to 
the Los Angeles, California, where it was sold in form of crack and 
served to poison vast Black communities, another of the devious 
objectives of the CIA. The proceedings were used to buy arms in Iran to 
provide the contras with them.

Money and power transforms the weak and devious. Noriega wasn't exempt. 
It went to his head. He now believed he was untouchable and felt he 
could ignore Washington's orders and instead of helping the U.S. place 
Guillermo Endara in power in Nicaragua, he decided he would impose a 
president of his own choosing: Francisco Rodriguez. Noriega also began 
harassing U.S. military bases in Panama. The U.S. was not about to put 
up his unruly behavior. Washington deployed troops to invade Panama in 
December 1989.

They captured Noriega and locked him up in a Miami jail, but before 
that, they killed 3,500 innocent civilians and displaced 20,000 more. 
Fair? Not for CIA's operation against Panama dubbed "Just Cause."

*CIA agent and Washington-backed drug trafficker enraged the U.S. when 
he refused to obey their orders, prompting an invasion that left 3,500 
innocent civilians dead.*

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*10. 1990 in Peru*

Finally, we arrive at Peru. First we need to understand this is the end 
to this list but by no means the end of U.S. interventions worldwide. 
The CIA continues to cause havoc across the Latin America and the rest 
of the world. However, these 10 cases may enlighten those who refuse to 
believe that the United States is responsible for death and destruction. 
It also serves to show how they operate and can be easily detected in 
places where there is instability, hunger and chaos. That's their 
specialty.

Peru: another CIA agent rises to power. Alberto Fujimori is elected 
president in 1990. The reason why his election is highly suspicious is 
because he was a mediocre person with no education and no charisma, just 
like the say his daughter Keiko Fujimori is. He had no political 
influence and he was known to nobody but his family.

Wait, he did show some intelligence when he asked Vladimiro Montesinos 
to be his associate. Montesinos is a lawyer and a very intelligent 
person with above average strategic thinking. He is also a CIA man. 
Fujimori named him National Intelligence Service director. A 
paramilitary group was created only to murder leftist and Marxist 
leaders. Fujimori dissolved Congress and locked up all the members of 
the Supreme Court of Justice. The CIA helped him with his plan, they 
financed him and supervised all his atrocities. Today, Fujimori is in jail.

-- 
Freedom Archives 522 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415 
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