Whimsy Never admits WrongNever Takes Responsibility for its Actions
REIGN OF TERRORAlwaysBlames those it Terrorizes
USA Versus Americas of the Global South
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USA v. Mexico 1846 |
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Invasion of Mexico, price of forced
peace: U.S. takes possession of more than half of Mexico’s territory, “what
is now most of the western United States.” |
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USA v. Cuba 1903 - |
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Post- Spanish American War forced treaty
results in “near total U.S. control of Cuban affairs” and “U.S. establishment
of (US war machine) naval base at Guantanamo Bay.” |
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[US “restrictions” on Cuban
economic and political freedom… lasted until the Castro revolution of 1959”] |
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USA v. Panama 1903 – late 1970s-1980s-1990s-2020s |
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Post-Panamanian Revolution, US assumes
“control of vital trade route of the Panama Canal.” In 1979, the U.S. government “returns the
Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On December 20, 1989, the United States invades
Panama. In 1999, the USA and Panama end their “joint partnership in
controlling the strategic waterway,” the Panama Canal. In 2025, the
forty-seventh US president, in public statements, threatens “to reclaim the
Panama Canal—by force if necessary” |
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USA v. Dominican Republic,
Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti from 1934 – present |
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Under occupation by US military
forces |
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USA v. Guatemala 1954 |
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CIA-backed coup overthrows
government of “Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz” |
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USA v. Brazil 1964 |
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U.S.-backed coup overthrows
government of Brazilian President Joao Goulart, “installs military
dictatorship lasting until the 1980s.” |
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USA v. Dominican Republic 1965 |
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U.S. forces land, intervene in internal
unrest |
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USA v. Chile 1973 |
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U.S.-supported military coup
overthrows democratically elected president Salvador Allende, replaced by Augusto
Pinochet dictator who “imposes a brutal military regime, embarks on U.S.-guided
program of extreme economic privatization and de-regulation”, seeding model
for later “neo-liberalism” |
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USA v. South American peoples 1970s
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US-aided “Operation Condor, a “brutal
campaign of repression and assassination aimed at perceived ‘leftist’ threats” |
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USA v. Nicaragua 1980 |
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USA [fortieth president, “Iran-Contra
Affair”] “backs ‘anti-Communist’ Contra forces against Nicaragua’s Sandinista
government”; backs “Salvadoran government against leftist FMLN rebels.” |
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USA v. Grenada 1983 |
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US entities accuse government of the
Caribbean islanded nation of Grenada of “allying with Cuba” and U.S. military
forces execute a violent invasion of the nation. |
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USA v. Panama 1989 |
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U.S. entities invade Panama to
oust “rogue CIA agent” aka “strongman” Manuel Noriega. |
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USA v. Haiti 1994 |
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USA leads invasion to overthrow government
of Haiti “installed by coup”; then, ten years later (2004), US-backed coup/invasion
overthrows government installed after previous invasion and overthrow. |
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USA v. Venezuela 2002 |
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U.S.-backed coup ousts government
of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (after two days, massive domestic support
reverses restores President Chavez to office |
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USA v. Honduras 2009 |
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U.S.-supported coup overthrows
government of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya |
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USA v. Venezuela 2017 – |
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US entities interfere in
Venezuelan domestic and governmental affairs by aggressive backing a
non-entity named “Juan Guaidó as [non-existent] ‘interim president’ of
Venezuela |
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USA v. Cuba and Cubans 2017 - |
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Between 2017 and 2024, in an attempt
“to strangle” the Cuba’s economy, the US regime cuts migrant “remittances”
sent to their homeland from approximately “$800 million” to “$35 million.” US
entities further tighten “economic embargo,” “expand sanctions,” and increase
“restrictions on foreign investment.” |
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USA v. Venezuela and Venezuelans 2017
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US leadership slanders Venezuelans
with unfounded accusations of criminal or gang-related behaviors, denounces Venezuelans
as “invaders” of the United States, falsely claims that the Venezuelan government
is affiliated with “the violent ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang” |
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USA v. Immigrants and migrant-originating
countries 2025 |
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US government entities’ attacks on
migrants struggling to survive include greater taxes on remittances sent to their
homeland (in Central America these remittances reportedly provide 23 percent
of that country’s GDP). Wealthy migrants are able to avoid such penalties by
moving money “through bank wires, investment accounts, shell companies, and
real estate purchases.” |
The United States of America
This great nation (as originally envisioned) and its people, as well as peoples and nations across the world could use (indeed they deserve) a far better caliber, a higher quality in all respects of leadership than the caliber of leadership that has been allowed position and power particularly in Federal Washington.
Sources
People's World January 25, 2019 “Before Venezuela: The long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America” (list compilation contributors the Associated Press and People’s World) https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/before-venezuela-the-long-history-of-u-s-intervention-in-latin-america/
New Historian April 12, 2015, “The USA and Latin America: A History of Meddling?”
posted by Daryl Worthington, https://www.newhistorian.com/2015/04/12/the-usa-and-latin-america-a-history-of-meddling/
Anna’s Archive “U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean”
Alt author Alan McPherson
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9ef7c53069f0c41e87fb9dd767b08c9c
Cronkite News “Trump is reopening past scars and stoking new fears in Panama: More than 35 years have passed since the U.S. invaded Panama to oust the dictator Manuel Noriega, but threats by President Donald Trump to reclaim the Panama Canal – by force if necessary – are reopening past scars and stoking new fears.” by Grace Berry/Cronkite Borderlands Project June 13, 2025 https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/06/13/donald-trump-reopening-past-scars-stoking-new-fears-in-panama/
Orinoco Tribune International Opinion US/Canada July 27-29, 2025, John Perry and Roger D. Harris “Trump Targets Latino Migrants – Ideology Over Humanity” https://orinocotribune.com/trump-targets-latino-migrants-ideology-over-humanity/
