Did U.S. financed coups in Latin America?

Question

Is it true that we financed coups through CIA funds in Latin America in the 70`s?

Answer 1

and in the 80,s too...but the US has gone further then just financing these acts..Mr. Posada served with the C.I.A. from 1961 to 1967, according to declassified United States government records. He was scheduled to land at the Bay of Pigs, the attack on Cuba ordered by the Kennedy administration, but his mission was canceled when the invasion collapsed. He kept in close touch with the agency after leaving it and joining Venezuela's intelligence service, known by its initials as Disip, where he served as a senior officer from 1969 to 1974, according to the declassified records and retired American officials who served in Venezuela. In 1974, after a change in government, Mr. Posada set up a detective agency in the capital, Caracas, an office through which many anti-Castro Cubans passed, according to F.B.I. records. He retained his links to Disip, a militantly anti-Castro agency in those cold war days. Then, amid an international wave of violence by the anti-Castro movement, including the attempted bombing of a New York City concert hall, two attacks shook the United States and Cuba. On Sept. 21, 1976, in the heart of Washington, a car bomb killed a former foreign minister of Chile, Orlando Letelier, and an American aide, Ronni Moffitt; at the time, it was one of the worst acts of foreign terrorism on American soil. Fifteen days later, a Cubana Airlines flight with 73 people on board was blown out of the sky off the coast of Barbados in the worst terrorist attack in Cuban history. Mr. Cornick, the F.B.I. counterterrorism specialist who worked on the Letelier case, said in an interview that both bombings were planned at a June 1976 meeting in Santo Domingo attended by, among others, Mr. Posada. "The Cubana bomb went off, the people were killed, and there were tracks leading right back to Disip," said Mr. Cornick, who is now retired. "The information was so strong that they locked up Posada as a preventative measure - to prevent him from talking or being killed. They knew that he had been involved," said Mr. Cornick, referring to the Venezuelan authorities. "There was no doubt in anyone's mind, including mine, that he was up to his eyeballs" in the Cubana bombing. A November 1976 F.B.I. report, based on the word of a trusted Cuban-American informer, Ricardo Morales, places Mr. Posada at two meetings where the Cubana bombing was plotted. It quotes the informer directly: "If Posada Carriles talks," it says, "the Venezuelan government will 'go down the tube.' " The document was obtained from government files by the National Security Archive, a private research group in Washington. Mr. Posada has always denied that he had a role in the bombing. But he was detained by the Venezuelan government for almost nine years in the case - never formally convicted, never fully acquitted. Finally, in 1985, he escaped his minimum-security confines. He found work in El Salvador as a quartermaster for the contras, the rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, whose mission was financed by the C.I.A. and Lt. Col. Oliver L. North of the National Security Council. After that covert operation was exposed in 1986, Mr. Posada landed in Guatemala, working as a government intelligence officer. In 1990, he was nearly killed in Guatemala by gunmen who he has said he suspected were sent by Mr. Castro.

Answer 2

The U.S. has been involved in financing coup d'etats for decades in South and Central America; we've also meddled in internal government affairs of these nations, and undoubtedly there's more: Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Columbia, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Why? Because we believe we have the right to meddle or worse if something these countries are doing interferes with our political, social, economic or cultural way of life. That can also include a U.S. multinational company having problems with the "locals" and calling on the U.S. Government to call in the military to "solve" their problem. This usually involves getting the "locals" raw materials for dirt cheap. Look at the sorry record of U.S. oil and natural gas companies' actions in the region.

Answer 3

You need to wake up. The CIA finances terrorists all over the World, they do whatever it takes to maintain the US stranglehold on World domination. Who trained Osama? The CIA when they were trying to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

You're living in Disney Land just like most of your compatriots.

Answer 4

Colin Powel actually apologized to Chile recently for the CIA support of the coup that put Pinochet in power and overthrew their democratically elected leader, Allende.

Answer 5

They did a hell of a lot more than finance them.Our dear government Instigated them! Trained death squads,and used propaganda on the peoples!! they still do in other locations across the planet.They install leaders who are more friendly to the "American way" ie- the corporate GREED way.where they take your resources for pennies,and pay your workers in pennies.So we can keep having cheap stuff.Thanks for asking!

Answer 6

Yes, and not just Latin America.

Answer 7

Most likely. Strange times.

Answer 8

Train them, finance them, help them to overthrow their governments, and then these 'stooges' turn on the US!
What utter lack of vision.

Answer 9

Yes,and called them freedom fighters instead of terrorists.

Answer 10

Of course. That's our right. Sometimes nations down there have the audacity to elect governments hostile to America. We don't need to put up with that. We should move even now to depose Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.