Then they ask why people come to America. A lot of Latin America wouldn't be in the US if the US just minded their own business and left Latin America alone.
US, you are the reasons for mass migration to the US.
You just gotta scroll up a bit. Nicaragua and Guatemala were in the 80s, absolutely the stuff of nightmares ten times worse than what Trump is doing. We almost certainly sponsored an attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, and a successful one in Honduras under Obama.
You're not wrong that Trump is a horrifying new chapter. It is testament to the semblance of humanity that the US State Department slowly developed post-2000 that, yes, Trump is a return to a much more barbaric and brazen time of US foreign policy, with worse surely on the horizon. But we never really stopped being the bad guys, we just got a little more subtle and less overtly violent about it, until now.
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 66 pts · 225d
Venezuela is incorrect: it's not a US*-backed* coup, it's a US coup period.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 23 pts · 225d
Yeah most of the others were helping the "rebels", here it's just an all out power grab
cabbage@piefed.social · 13 pts · 225d
The main difference is that they don't bother pretending any more. It was always about installing a US puppet regime.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 225d
Then they ask why people come to America. A lot of Latin America wouldn't be in the US if the US just minded their own business and left Latin America alone.
US, you are the reasons for mass migration to the US.
grue@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 225d
Fifty years without US-backed coups until Trump.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 12 pts · 225d
You just gotta scroll up a bit. Nicaragua and Guatemala were in the 80s, absolutely the stuff of nightmares ten times worse than what Trump is doing. We almost certainly sponsored an attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, and a successful one in Honduras under Obama.
You're not wrong that Trump is a horrifying new chapter. It is testament to the semblance of humanity that the US State Department slowly developed post-2000 that, yes, Trump is a return to a much more barbaric and brazen time of US foreign policy, with worse surely on the horizon. But we never really stopped being the bad guys, we just got a little more subtle and less overtly violent about it, until now.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 225d
So as long you ignore the eastern hemisphere.
procapra@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 225d
We still rigged plenty of elections don't worry
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 225d
This map only shows South America.
Keineanung@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 225d
And all of them turned out great!
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 225d
How did Peru and Colombia dodge the democracy™
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 225d
No oil?
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 225d
Live your myth in America! Where coups and attacking other countries is normal. After all it not the citizens, it's the government and the companies.
Willy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 225d
This doesn’t seem like a coup or even a us backed coup just yet. It may well end up being one. Right now it seems like a kidnapping and extortion.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 225d
Hands all over the Southern border
You know what I think we're falling
From composure
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 225d
The latest coup i think this should read.
credo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 225d
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of the monopoly game from McDonald’s.
Just a few more value meals…
saimen@feddit.org · 0 pts · 225d
Nature is healing... ?
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 225d
US related coups