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Dictatorships supported by the USA
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Throughout its existence, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries, the United States government has provided funding for, and supplied weapons to, a large number of dictatorships around the world. In some cases, this support has been intended to protect and expand U.S. economic interests, and bring U.S. mixed economic policies (which lean closest to free-market capitalism) to countries under control of state capitalist or socialist economic systems.
See also
- Jorge Ubico
- Syngman Rhee, Republic of Korea (South Korea), 1948-1960
- Saudi royal family
- Fulgencio Batista, Republic of Cuba 1952-1959
- Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (deposed Mohammad Mossadeq), Iran, 1953-1979
- Ngo Dinh Diem, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), 1955-1963
- Ferdinand Marcos, Phillipines, 1965-1986[1][2]
- Lon Nol (deposed Norodom Sihanouk, Khmer Republic, 1970-April 17, 1975 (overthrew by communist revolutionaries, the Khmer Rouge)
- General Augusto Pinochet (deposed Salvador Allende in a coup), Chile, 1973-1990
- General (military) Suharto (deposed Sukarno), Republic of Indonesia, 1975-1995
- Saddam Hussein, Republic of Iraq, 1979-1990
- General Manuel Noreiga, Republic of Panama, 1983-1989
- Francois Duvalier and Jean-Claude Duvalier, Republic of Haiti, 1957-1971; 1971-1986
- Khmer Rouge, 1979-early 1990s (the U.S. government created conditions in Cambodia conducive to Pol Pot's rise to power; the U.S. government directly funded Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge after they were thrown from power by the Vietnamese counterattack).[3]
See Also
- Cold War covert overthrow of governments by the US
- Post-Cold War covert regime change by the US
- CIA: SAD and SOG operations from WWII through Viet Nam
- CIA: SAD and SOG operations from 1975-2002
- CIA: SAD and SOG operations in Afghanistan
- CIA: SAD and SOG operations in Iraq since 2003
- CIA: SAD and SOG operations in Pakistan
- CIA: SAD and SOG operations worldwide since 2001
Further reading
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- William Blum (2003). Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Common Courage Press. Wikipedia:Killing Hope
- William D. Perdue (August 7, 1989). Terrorism and the State: A Critique of Domination Through Fear, p. 240, Praeger Press.
- David F. Schmitz (1999). Thank God they're on our side: the United States and right-wing dictatorships, 1921-1965, University of North Carolina Press.
- Jeffrey A. Sluka (1999). Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror, University of Pennsylvania Press.
- C. Thomas Wright (February 28, 2007). State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc..
