US-China Relations Updates

This article is from youtube titled: “How China is using Lartin America to Threaten USA” and one of the comments below the video said: Here are the reasons why:

• 🇦🇷 Argentina: The 1976 coup d’état was tacitly supported by the U.S. during Gerald Ford’s presidency. The American government would also go on to politically support the brutal Argentine Military Dictatorship until 1982, when the Falklands War happened and the U.S. sided with the UK.

• 🇧🇴 Bolivia: The U.S. government supported the 1971 coup d’état led by General Hugo Banzer that toppled President Juan José Torres, replacing a military dictatorship with another military dictatorship.

• 🇧🇷 Brazil: João Goulart was the president of Brazil since 1961, in this year, the Brazilian president Jânio Quadros resigned, and he, as the democratically elected vice-president, assumed power, however, his process of becoming president was chaotic since a part of the population and politicians accused him of being a communist, and even tried to block him from assuming power, he in the end was successful but there still were many conspiracies in the population and military that accused him of being a communist, the Brazilian relations with the U.S. during his presidency soured. Political tensions within Brazil ended up on the military taking over the government and overthrowing João Goulart on 1964 through a coup d’état, in which the U.S. sent their Navy and Air Force to support the Brazilian military rebels through Operation Brother-Sam. The U.S. also politically supported the Brazilian Military Dictatorship that followed the coup d’état until its end on 1985.

• 🇨🇱 Chile: Since 1970, Chile was governed by the democratically elected marxist Salvador Allende, who was doing socialist reforms throughout the country, the American president Richard Nixon, in fear of Chile “becoming another Cuba”, ordered an “Economic War” agaisnt Chile, the Chilean economy soured, and political tensions in the country begin to rise. In the end, the U.S. backed a coup d’état that happened on 1973 putting general Augusto Pinochet into power, starting a period of military dictatorship until 1990. During this period, the Americans retained close relations with Augusto Pinochet. • 🇨🇺 Cuba: After 6 years of effort, U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista’s authoritarian government was finally overthrown on 1959 by the Cuban Revolution, however, the new government that surged was a socialist one, which worried the U.S., who imposed an economic embargo on Cuba that is on force to this day. On 1961, the U.S. trained some exiled Cuban soldiers and sent them to the Bay of Pigs to attempt an invasion, which failed, Cuba then to protect itself from another U.S. invasion, asked for defense to the Soviet Union, which later led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• 🇬🇹 Guatemala: After decades of dictatorship, the Guatemalan Revolution finally returned the country to a free and fair liberal democracy on 1944, after some years, Jacobo Árbenz was elected on 1951, and he started making some changes within Guatemala, that envolved taking unused owned land and giving to the poor people to profit, these changes affected the United Fruit Company, an extremely powerful American company that owned a lot of Guatemalan land, the UFC after seeing its land being taken away, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatemalan government, accusing Jacobo Árbenz of being communist. In the end, a coup d’état with direct involvement from the U.S. took place on 1954, Jacobo Árbenz was overthrown and Castillo Armas assumed power as a military dictator, putting the country back into a period of military dictatorship again. Later political chaos ended up on a 36 year long civil war (1960–1996), that resulted in almost 200,000 deaths, with the majority of these deaths being from indiginous people.

• 🇭🇹 Haiti: The U.S. military occupied Haiti July 28, 1915, when 330 U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, to take control of Haiti’s political and financial interests. The invasion and subsequent occupation was promoted by growing American business interests in Haiti, especially the National City Bank of New York, which had withheld funds from Haiti and paid rebels to destabilize the nation through the Bank of the Republic of Haiti with an aim at inducing American intervention.

• 🇭🇳 Honduras: On 2009, the U.S. supported a coup d’état that overthrowed the president Manuel Zelaya and brought up an interim government led by Roberto Micheletti into power. Although many agree that Manuel Zelaya was indeed doing illegal things during his presidency, it is important to note that the military of the interim government that assumed after the coup d’état was responsible for many human right abuses in clashes with pro-Zelaya protesters.

• 🇵🇦 Panama: The U.S. was a close ally of the military dictator Manuel Noriega until his involvement in racketeering and drug trafficking started to be exposed, the U.S. after seeing those crimes started to be “ashamed” of him, and on 1989 he was deposed in an American invasion.

• 🇵🇾 Paraguay: The U.S. supported Alfredo Stroessner’s military dictatorship that lasted 35 years, this was because of Stroessner’s anti-communist policies and participation in Operation Condor, which earned him the support of the U.S.

• 🇲🇽 Mexico: On 1913, during the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. supported a coup d’état that overthrowed the democratically elected president Francisco I. Madero, putting general Victoriano Huerta into power, this event became known as the “Ten Tragic Days” because of how much violence that happened. This instigated a new phase of the Mexican Revolution, where all warring factions united to take Victoriano Huerta out of power.

• 🇳🇮 Nicaragua: On 1912, during the Banana Wars period, the U.S. occupied Nicaragua as a means of protecting American business interests and protecting the rights that Nicaragua granted to the United States to construct a canal there. The intervention, utilizing the U.S. Marine Corps, was sparked by a rebellion that opposed the United States. After quelling the rebellion, the U.S. continued occupying Nicaragua until 1933, when President Herbert Hoover officially ended the occupation.

• 🇵🇪 Peru: The U.S. supported Francisco Morales Bermúdez’s military dictatorship as part of Operation Condor, and funded anti-communist actions from the oppresive regime.

• 🇺🇾 Uruguay: The U.S. politically supported the Uruguayan civic-military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, because of its anti-communist policies, the U.S. even funded the regime as part of Operation Condor. All these things that I mentioned caused deaths, disappearances, conflicts and an overall deep damage within Latin America, that’s why some of us prefer China over the United States.