Venezuela
What Vice-President Pence could not say in public when he spoke about helping the Venezuelan "people" get their "freedom".
"There is no room for any outside influence other than ours in this region [Latin America]. We could not tolerate auch a thing... Until now Central America has always understood that governments which we recognize and support stay in power, while those which we do not recognize and support fall."—Robert Olds
Quoted in Peter Baofu's The Rise of Authoritarian Liberal Democracy, Cambridge 2007, p. 85
Recent interventions aside, Mark Rosenfelder (1996) counted, for instance, that between 1846 and 1996 alone, there were more than "79 U.S. military interventions in Latin America and Haiti..."
What Vice-President Pence could not say in public when he spoke about helping the Venezuelan "people" get their "freedom".
"There is no room for any outside influence other than ours in this region [Latin America]. We could not tolerate auch a thing... Until now Central America has always understood that governments which we recognize and support stay in power, while those which we do not recognize and support fall."—Robert Olds
Quoted in Peter Baofu's The Rise of Authoritarian Liberal Democracy, Cambridge 2007, p. 85
Recent interventions aside, Mark Rosenfelder (1996) counted, for instance, that between 1846 and 1996 alone, there were more than "79 U.S. military interventions in Latin America and Haiti..."
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