In the 80's, Republicans used the CIA to promote corporate interests and Destabilize popular

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movements in Central and South America.

Is anyone, who has paid attention to recent (last 60 years) American History, surprised that the lessons learned in Central and South America are now being used against our Democracy?

Are we still teaching this subject in High School? Or is that going to become the next CRT?

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Read corporate interests as

private interests. Each corporation embodies someone's agenda. The ability to pursue that in secret is just too tempting.

[Chainfire]

2. What is good for business is good for the people, even it it kills us.

[canuckledragger]

3. Not just the CIA, but the military too.

A general, Smedley Butler, wrote a book called 'War is a Racket ' describing what he did in spots like central amercia, basically invading them and making it safe for US corporations to come in and exploit the piss out of the place for profit. All profits going to the US of course.

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4. General Wallace Nutting.

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The rise and fall, there-of. I knew his grandson - growing up in my neighborhood. Dad was Marine, like Gramps. Nutting became head of Southern Command - 4 Stars - then dishonor. Gonna have to read up more about his career.

On edit, it was my friend's Dad that was the 4 Star. I saw him when he was at LtC rank?

[Samrob]

5. I remember listening to WPFW about the role CIA was playing in all things Central American

drug cartels, drug trafficking in the US, etc. Wonder if any of those broadcasts are available in some archive. Would be interesting t hear them now.

[many a good man]

6. You can

https://pacificaradioarchives.org

[iemanja]

7. It's been going on since the late 19th century

by administrations across the political spectrum. https://yachana.org/teaching/resources/interventions.html

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8. Different now. The majority voice is outshouted by an increasingly smaller right.

[iemanja]

9. I thought this was US interventions in Latin America?

Suddenly that doesn't matter?

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10. That was the social labratory used to change minds.

Or kill them. Fox is the front end of quasi-governmental propaganda here. Supporting a 2x impeached, 2x popular vote Loser. Hoping to overthrown Democracy. Treason, pure and simple.

[iemanja]

11. Projecting onto the past isn't generally a good idea

The Central American interventions of the 1980s were entirely consistent with US policy dating back to the late 19th century. They have more in common with 1954 Guatemala and the overthrow of Mosaddegh in Iran around the same time, or Chile in 1973. The US has never much liked democratic governments in the Global South because they got in the way of US economic and geopolitical interests. You've cherry picked a period of history and ignored the rest to make a very strained point. It's not like it's necessary to engage in ahistorical analysis to point to Republican anti-democratic sentiment. We know the Republicans are waging a war on democracy, and they didn't need to get the idea from Nicaragua. Today they are looking to Hungary for inspiration.

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12. I will postulate, without evidence, that after WW2....the military RWingers stay in for career jobs.

US military was happy to follow CIA/Republican/MIC business objectives.


Not in US interests, but world oil dependency has been a thing forever. So why is Musk being a Republican when it is the the Democrats who support an EV future?