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Latin America

TreasonousBastard

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1. Ohferchrissakes-- we've been dicking about in the Caribbean forever. We even...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:53 PM

Mar 2020

created the Monroe Doctrine so we could play around there without interference.
The Spanish American War was largely to get Cuba as a defensive point for the Panama Canal. And we constantly messed around in Central America to make the world safe for United Fruit.

And so it goes... Castro's greatest sin was getting setting the stage for getting rid of "our" dictators down there.

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The US government's 'divide and conquer' tactics in the Caribbean [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2020 OP

Ohferchrissakes-- we've been dicking about in the Caribbean forever. We even... TreasonousBastard Mar 2020 #1