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Our dearly beloved El Presidente is in Washington DC, shaking hands with Biden, who probably can't remember his name.
And yesterday, Tuesday the 28th, was the initial day of the portentously named "Second Summit on Democracy", also taking place in Gomorrah-on-the-Potomac.
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The usual Google Translate deal, banner is in Castellano and story will initially appear in that tongue, but wait a few seconds and it will change to English.
The article linked just above is not written in a tone of respectful admiration, to put it nicely. However, I did find the 5th paragraph to be an impressive list of foreign policy blunders by our deal old Uncle Sam -
In Argentina the bloody military coups of 1966 and 1976 were sponsored and protected by Washington. In Chile, the brutal coup on September 11, 1973, and the subsequent death in combat of Salvador Allende , were orchestrated from Washington by President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser, and later Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger . The 1964 coup d'état in Brazil , which lasted until 1985, was enthusiastically supported by Washington, as was its 1973 Uruguayan counterpart.which also lasted until 1985 when Washington realized that its open support for the ferocious Latin American dictatorships was damaging its international image and that the time had come to bet on democracy, but taking due precautions. Earlier, in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson had dispatched 40,000 Marines to the Dominican Republic to overthrow that country's Constitutionalist government. We must not forget that Washington prepared an armed confrontation that lasted ten years (1979-1989) against the Sandinista government and that years later used all the means at its disposal to destabilize the government of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front in El Salvador . America also supported the dictatorship of the Duvalliers, father and son in Haiti; of the Somozas in Nicaragua; Stroessner in Paraguay and Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The list would be endless.
Bolding in the above paragraph-length quote is not mine, but that of the original author, Atilio Boron. Also, I'd note that the above list is not comprehensive - the 1983 invasion of Grenada, for example, is not included.
To be fair, many of these excesses were committed at a time when belief in monolithic communism was an unquestioned tenet of western foreign policy. Judging the actions of the past by the knowledge and understanding of today is always questionable. Still, one can perhaps see why many nations of Latin America do not view the US government with quite the positive attitude which Washington might prefer.
And yesterday, Tuesday the 28th, was the initial day of the portentously named "Second Summit on Democracy", also taking place in Gomorrah-on-the-Potomac.
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Este martes comenzó en Washington la Segunda Cumbre sobre la Democracia. El miércoles será el día de la reunión plenaria. El evento es convocado por el gobierno de Estados Unidos a través del Departamento de Estado pero, como es habitual, unos "gobiern...
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The article linked just above is not written in a tone of respectful admiration, to put it nicely. However, I did find the 5th paragraph to be an impressive list of foreign policy blunders by our deal old Uncle Sam -
In Argentina the bloody military coups of 1966 and 1976 were sponsored and protected by Washington. In Chile, the brutal coup on September 11, 1973, and the subsequent death in combat of Salvador Allende , were orchestrated from Washington by President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser, and later Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger . The 1964 coup d'état in Brazil , which lasted until 1985, was enthusiastically supported by Washington, as was its 1973 Uruguayan counterpart.which also lasted until 1985 when Washington realized that its open support for the ferocious Latin American dictatorships was damaging its international image and that the time had come to bet on democracy, but taking due precautions. Earlier, in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson had dispatched 40,000 Marines to the Dominican Republic to overthrow that country's Constitutionalist government. We must not forget that Washington prepared an armed confrontation that lasted ten years (1979-1989) against the Sandinista government and that years later used all the means at its disposal to destabilize the government of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front in El Salvador . America also supported the dictatorship of the Duvalliers, father and son in Haiti; of the Somozas in Nicaragua; Stroessner in Paraguay and Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The list would be endless.
Bolding in the above paragraph-length quote is not mine, but that of the original author, Atilio Boron. Also, I'd note that the above list is not comprehensive - the 1983 invasion of Grenada, for example, is not included.
To be fair, many of these excesses were committed at a time when belief in monolithic communism was an unquestioned tenet of western foreign policy. Judging the actions of the past by the knowledge and understanding of today is always questionable. Still, one can perhaps see why many nations of Latin America do not view the US government with quite the positive attitude which Washington might prefer.
