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Every time the United States ‘saves’ a town, it leaves it turned into a madhouse or a cemetery.”
Phrase, the previous one, by Eduardo Galeano, which portrays the hells of people whose wealth in natural resources or strategic geographical positions make them the target of American voracity with which they prey indiscriminately – under the fallacy of providing humanitarian aid or applying justice – while ruthlessly plundering territories and destroying populations.
In 1913, the intervention of the United States in Mexico was key to assassinating President Francisco I. Madero, Victoriano Huerta, agreeing with US President Woodrow Wilson through Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, overthrowing the first democratic government of Mexico and thereby attempting to secure US economic interests, including oil.
In 1951, leftist Jacobo Árbenz was elected president of Guatemala in the first elections with universal suffrage in the country’s history. Árbenz led an agrarian reform that affected the United Fruit Company, a powerful American corporation that owned approximately 40 percent of Guatemala’s land and dominated the country’s economy and politics by also controlling railroads, ports and communications.
In full cold warthe United States accused Árbenz of being close to the Soviet Union, launched the operation PBSuccess to stage a coup d’état and reestablished American political and economic interests. A pro-Washington military junta, led by military man Carlos Castillo Armas, took power, causing a civil war that lasted almost 40 years.
In the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch, a left-wing social democrat, won the 1962 elections after the assassination of the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo – who came to power thanks to the support of the United States and lost it due to the loss of sympathy from the same empire – and the coup d’état against Joaquín Balaguer, Leónidas’ successor.
Juan Bosch was overthrown seven months after protesting in a military coup that caused a civil war between military forces and pro-Bosch constitutionalists. Faced with the possibility of Bosch’s return to power, the United States conceived the operation Power Pack and with it the incursion of thousands of US soldiers to regain control. The US occupation lasted 17 months, ending with the coming to power of a government similar to the White House.
The creation of Panama occurred through American interventionism when in 1903 it sent warships to support separatist groups that were fighting not to be part of Colombia, which resulted in the United States taking control of the Panama Canal at the time of its independence; 90 years later, the White House intervened again when it overthrew its former collaborator Manuel Noriega, whom it accused of being a drug trafficker in yet another example of the double game that the United States plays to defend its interests.
Declassified US intelligence documents prove US participation in the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile. In 1973, a military junta led by Augusto Pinochet with the support of the United States assassinated the democratically elected president, which began a dictatorship that disappeared and tortured dissidents, turning Chile into a cemetery under the protection of US interventionist policy.
In 1964, leftist Brazilian President João Goulart was overthrown in a coup backed by the United States, which installed a military government that remained in power until the 1980s.
Last Saturday, United States military forces, in flagrant violation of international treaties and the UN Charter, carried out an armed attack in Venezuela to kidnap its president, Nicolás Maduro, and establish a new government with the primary intention of obtaining Venezuelan oil.
Maduro’s legitimacy is questioned after elections lacking transparency and accusations of human rights violations in Venezuela, a matter whose resolution is the exclusive responsibility of the Venezuelan people and not the interventionist interests of any other nation.
Trump’s message is clear, send US soldiers and oil companies to Venezuela. Maintain a Chavista government under the leadership of Delcy Rodríguez – after brushing aside the intentions of the Venezuelan dissidents and with them María Corina Machado – in an agreement that clearly seems like an arranged fight that not even Don King would have been able to operate.
