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During the early 1960s, Brazil entered a period of unrest caused by the military’s concern over the direction of government policies. The military’s concern rose toward the end of the 1950s due to the president’s perceived connection to communist world leaders. Prior to the Military Coup, the American government demanded that Brazil either move away from leftist policies or be forcefully changed. When Brazil did not comply, the United States, concerned that Brazil would join the communist block in South America, provided money and weapons to help the military overthrow the government. Although the Brazilian Military Coup of 1964 stimulated the Brazilian economy by investing more money into national growth, it was ultimately unsuccessful because

Compare and contrast the manners in which two authoritarian leaders [Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet] established and maintained their rule during their respective reigns.

In the matter of days, the rebels managed to storm the government buildings in the capital and successfully threw the dictator over five stories. Once the United States confirmed that the dictator had died, they sent over troops to Central America and installed a puppet. Everyone was surprised by the sudden move and knew that they had to accept their new ruler. [b][SUBJECTED TO

In attempt to push Cuban nationalist Fidel Castro out of power, in April of 1961 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched full-scale invasion of the Bahía de Cochinos in Cuba that was unfortunately not a success and failed miserably within 24 hours. After two years of trying to remove Castro from his political position America was very optimistic about this final strike. However, between being outnumbered by Castro's troops and almost immediately surrendering the invasion was not effective.

One of the most speculative experiences of conquest and dictatorship in the history of Latin America has been the socialist and dictatorial regimes in Chile. Chile has gone through multiple times of dictatorship, lead by the military, and also had lapses of a socialist government. The film “Machuca” by Andres Wood provided an insight of the series of social events in Chile in 1973, ranging from inter personal experiences to political issues and the Chilean nation. “Two dictators, Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet, both brought tremendous suffering upon the Chilean people -- one through his socialist policies and nationalization of

As Charles Bergquist observes, "Crises in Colombia tend to generate cycles of violence instead of mutations in the political regime." The reason is simple: regime changes in Colombia tend to produce very little change in anything other than nominal rule. Since Colombia's independence from Spain in the early 19th century, Colombia has seen a series of civil wars and secessions (Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama the last coming rather conveniently at a time when the U.S. was prepared to pay millions for a canal through its nation preparation that later resulted in a multi-million dollar redress to Columbia). Colombia's political history, therefore, has been colored by outside influences pulling on the two dominant liberal and conservative parties, with violent exchanges, and long periods of instability being the consequences. While regime changes have occurred, they have not produced significant improvements. Rather, Colombia in the 20th century has become a nesting ground for paramilitary forces and drug traffickers, with U.S. Central Intelligence operatives contributing heavily to the violent conflict that has risen between regimes. This paper will examine the regime types that preceded the Rojas Pinilla regime in mid-20th century Colombia, analyze their similarities and differences, and discuss the extent to which Rojas Pinilla reached his goals and objectives.

The US irrevocably changed the history of Chile through its intervention in the 1970’s. The intervention destroyed decade’s worth of potential development in Chile (not to mention the deaths of thousands due to installing a murderous dictator), to keep communism out of the Chile, and protect United States business interests. The United States’ interest in a potential intervention in Chile began in 1970, the year Salvador Allende was elected the Chilean President. Allende was a leftist candidate from the Socialist Party of Chile whom Nixon suspected of potentially turning communist. Allende made critical remarks about the United States’ involvement in Latin America, especially their failed invasion of Cuba, the Bay of Pigs. This, combined with

With Pinochet’s rejection of communist thinking he was able to obtain the backing of the United States which was a key difference in his ability to come to power in his country. This in comparison with Castro and the hard hand that the United States used to try to make crush Castro’s reign in Cuba. The United States was not happy that Chile had elected a well-known socialist into presidency and

n both scenarios the countries had problems with terrorism before they became the president. In Fujimori's case the "communism" was starting to take over in the form of terror group in Peru. In Pinochet's case a president with these "communist" views was elected.

Chile’s economy was effectively owned by US corporation’s, and these corporation’s controlled the country's resources. When Allende nationalized copper the two main American corporation were financially hurt severely and lost a lot of profit. This concerned the US and Nixon worried that Chile was falling under soviet control and communism. One of Nixon’s fears was that the Soviets would have total control in Americas backyard. However, the major reason that the US instigated the overthrow was because the corporations did not want Chile to take over their own resources and use them for their own benefit. The corporations were able to exercise leverage over Allende because Chile was in the middle of an economic depression and Chile was receiving loans from American banks. Once Allende was in power these loans were stopped by US foreign policy and of course Chile suffered economically . At this point,

During Noriega's surge in power, Richard Nixon, the President of the United States at the time, requested help from Noriega when two United States ships were captured by Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Noriega slowly formulated a plan based upon intense research and intelligence to gain the upper hand. He succeeded for both sides, and then began exploring options with both the US and the Cubans who were, up until this point, mortal enemies. As a show of faith, the U.S. allowed Noriega to be a part of their secret spy organization formally know as the Central Intelligence Association. As part of the CIA, he began working closely with them on spying.

In 1975, the Civil Service Commission nullified the discrimination of this order by allowing the employment of homosexual workers on a case by case basis. In 1954, the Eisenhower Administration began to implement an immigration policy known as Operation Wetback, which created deportation teams to round up illegal immigrants and forcefully return them to Mexico. Over 1 million immigrants were deported to Mexico, but many of them were left stranded after arriving, far from their homes and families. Not only was Operation Wetback inhumane, it was also ineffective because although many immigrants were removed from the country, thousands of them returned only to be deported again. These immigrants were returning to the United States because American growers continued to hire them rather than American citizens, a problem that was not dealt with by the Eisenhower Administration. Throughout his presidency, Eisenhower was deeply involved in foreign affairs. Although he had many accomplishments in that matter, some of his international actions were not good. In 1953, the CIA, with approval from Eisenhower and the cooperation of the British MI6, staged a ¬coup in Iran over petroleum supplies and dishonest claims of communist threats, leaving the country under the rule of a monarch. Only a year later, the Eisenhower administration authorized a another CIA coup, this time in Guatemala, to remove the democratically elected President Árbenz and replace him with a dictator for the purpose of protecting the interests of the American corporation known as the United Fruit Company. Another case of failed covert operations under the Eisenhower Presidency occurred on May 1st, 1960 when an American spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower administration lied

Then in 1973, a military coup backed by the CIA overthrew Allende and General Augusto Pinochet took power. His government "tortured and murdered thousands of Chileans. He sent tanks into the streets to discourage the curiosity of those who wanted to investigate his crimes"(Galeano, Upside Down, 193). When he retired in 1998, he made himself a senator for life.

Allende who at the time was a socialist governor, believed that Pinochet fully supported him. Minister points out in his article, “Allende's socialist platform advocated nationalizing foreign-owned industry and rectifying Chile's gross economic disparity. Further polarizing the situation, the US government under Richard Nixon smuggled funds to the military for arms and anti-Allende propaganda”. This resulted Allende arranging Pinochet as Commander in Chief of the army on September 9. Two weeks later, Pinochet joined a “CIA-Backed four-man junta “ to overthrow the government. By September 11, Santiago was under a sate of “siege” that would be raised over the next 17 years. Pinochet soon assumed complete control when he decided that one and only one leader could control a “volatile situation”.

A television reporter was reported to thrust a microphone in the hands of Pinochet, and he was asked to comment on the unearthed coffins with more than one body in them. He replied, “how very economical” (Mark Ensalaco 2000). Pinochet was going to be prosecuted for the atrocities that occurred under his presidency but died before going to trial at the age of 91. Many Chileans refer to him as a ruthless murderer, but others say he saved them from socialism and ushered an era of economic prosperity. The American President Nixon at the time supported Pinochet's actions by supplying firearms and ammunition (Kornbluh 2003).