Reply #38: Sorry. I disagree.

[clear eye]

I was writing shorthand for the whole period starting in '52 and going through the '60s. The assumption by U.S. backed multi-nationals that they can ride roughshod over the gov'ts and people of Latin American countries just b/c they have a contract to extract some natural resource really is the reason that democratically elected gov'ts there are so eager to grab onto alternatives, even China. If you doubt that, you're just missing the whole picture.

How many massacres, how many coups and attempted coups by elites backed w/ U.S. money and disinformation expertise would it take to convince you? Doubting it is like doubting that the Eastern European bloc was under the thumb of the Soviets. It flies in the face of all available evidence.