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<p>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. </p>
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<p>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. </p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>IN DEPTH:<br>
<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/telesuragenda/CIA-in-Ecuador-20160605-0027.html">CIA
in Ecuador</a></strong> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>The CIA has been exposed on a number of occasions
through documented evidence, leaks of information and
whistleblowing by active and former agents. </p>
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<p><strong><span>1. 1954 in Guatemala</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p><strong>U.S.-backed and financed military tyrants of
Guatemala 1954 </strong> </p>
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<p><strong><span>2. 1959 in Haiti</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>OPINION:<br>
<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/US-Court-Dismisses-8700-Haitian-Lives-20150122-0034.html">US
Court Dismisses 8,700 Haitian Lives</a></strong> </p>
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<p>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. </p>
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<p><strong>U.S. puppet Francois Duvalier—a CIA murderer</strong>
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<p><strong><span>3. 1964 in Brazil</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p><strong>Joao Goulart's mistake was carving into U.S.
companies' profits for the good of his people.</strong>
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<p><strong><span>4. 1969 in Uruguay</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>ANALYSIS:<br>
<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Marking-Brazils-Brutal-US-Backed-Military-Coup-52-Years-Later-20160331-0029.html">Marking
Brazil's Brutal US-Backed Military Coup 52 Years
Later</a></strong> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>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. </p>
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<p><strong>Pepe Mujija bravely fought off U.S. attempts to
annihilate socialist leaders in Uruguay, and survived.</strong>
</p>
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<p><strong><span>5. 1971 in Bolivia</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p><strong>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. </strong> </p>
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<p><strong><span>6. 1973 in Chile</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>RELATED:<br>
<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Chile-Asks-US-to-Extradite-Pinochet-Era-Killers-of-UN-Diplomat-20160517-0036.html">Chile
Asks US to Extradite Pinochet-Era Killers of UN
Diplomat</a></strong> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.” </p>
<p>Pinochet ruled for 17 years. He jailed 80,000 people,
tortured 30,000 and murdered 3,200. </p>
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<p><strong>Another victim of the many coups on democracy
carried out by the United States: Salvador Allende. </strong>
</p>
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<p><strong><span>7. 1976 in Argentina</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p><strong><span>8. 1980 in El Salvador</span></strong> </p>
<p>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.
</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>ANALYSIS:<br>
<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Bay-of-Pigs-the-CIAs-Biggest-Fiasco-55-Years-Later-20150416-0042.html">Bay
of Pigs, the CIA's Biggest Fiasco, 55 Years Later</a></strong>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p><strong>Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero broke with
Catholic tradition by caring for the poor. He paid for
it with his life. </strong> </p>
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<p><strong><span>9. 1989 in Panama</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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." </p>
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<p><strong>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.</strong> </p>
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<p><strong><span>10. 1990 in Peru</span></strong> </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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