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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/11/2022
Why Do We Know So Little about the 1930s Coup Attempt against FDR?
by Sally Denton
"In a climate of conspiracies and intrigues, and against the backdrop of charismatic dictators in the world such as Hitler and Mussolini, the sparks of anti-Rooseveltism ignited into full-fledged hatred."
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/19/2021
Voters Choose Young Leftist Gabriel Boric in Chile by Wide Margin
"At 35, Mr. Boric will be the nation’s youngest leader and by far its most liberal since President Salvador Allende, who died by suicide during the 1973 military coup that ushered in a brutal 17-year dictatorship."
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SOURCE: Skipped History
3/24/2021
The 1954 US-Backed Coup in Guatemala
by Ben Tumin
Ben Tumin's "Skipped History" video series returns with a discussion of the 1954 Guatemala Coup, drawing on the work of Greg Grandin, Stephen Kinzer and Steven Schleshinger, and Vincent Bevins.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/23/2021
Argentina’s Military Coup of 1976: What the U.S. Knew
Newly declassified documents demonstrate that the US government, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, were aware of the developing coup and evaluated policy as a balancing of the prospective military dictatorship's friendliness to the US against its likely willingness to commit human rights violations.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/13/2021
Wealthy Bankers And Businessmen Plotted To Overthrow FDR. A Retired General Foiled It
by Gillian Brockell
Major General Smedley Butler (USMC) told Congress in 1933 that a group of business leaders had asked him to lead a coup against FDR. He insisted the plot was serious and credible. Has this episode faded from awareness because it was a hoax, or because Roosevelt and Congress all wanted to conceal how close it came to succeeding?
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SOURCE: PBS News Hour
1/10/2021
Don't Compare the Capitol Riot to the "Third World"
"Lucia Dammert, a Wilson Center Global Fellow and Professor at the University of Santiago of Chile objects to the comparison to the Global South -- adding that the U.S. has played a key role in sparking the turbulence, especially in Latin America."
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SOURCE: Not Even Past
11/13/2020
Out of the Rubble: Doctors Strikes and State Repression in Guatemala’s Cold War
by Ilan Palacios Avineri
An earthquake in Guatemala, and subsequent demands for their labor, shook many medical professionals out of complacency and cooperation with the country's right-wing government at the height of the nation's civil war.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9/4/2020
I Danced in the Streets after Allende’s Victory in Chile 50 Years Ago. Now I See its Lessons for Today
by Ariel Dorfman
The Chilean author Ariel Dorfman warns that while his country elected a democratic socialist in a landmark election, it was unprepared to deal with violent and ruthless efforts to maintain the status quo. Joe Biden is no socialist, but if he wins, his administration and Americans at large must be similarly prepared.
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SOURCE: NBC News
6/7/2020
A Message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the Shah Played Role in CIA 1953 Coup in Iran, Documentary Says
Historians who uncovered a message from "Queen Elizabeth" believe its misinterpretation helped persuade the shah not to flee Iran at a pivotal moment.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/29/2020
The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood
by Vincent Bevins
American politicians, pundits and citizens need to understand that the history of American influence in the world has included violent subversion of democracy in the name of American interests.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/20/19
Trump keeps warning of a coup. But the only one in American history was a bloody, racist uprising.
Alfred Moore Waddell became the mayor of Wilmington, N.C., in November 1898 after leading the only successful coup on U.S. soil.
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The Intricacies of Egyptian Coup d'États
by Daniel Pipes
Was Morsi the democratically elected president of Egypt? Every press account affirms he was but that is wrong.
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SOURCE: AP
5-29-13
Trinidad panel looks at 1990 coup attempt
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — The Muslim cleric who led a small army that stormed Trinidad & Tobago’s parliament in a blaze of gunfire is a free man. Never convicted of any charges, he cheerfully presides over a mosque and school complex in the country’s bustling capital and shares time among his four wives, the maximum Islam allows.Yasin Abu Bakr and his followers were jailed for two years after the 1990 attempt to overthrow the government of one of the Caribbean’s most prosperous countries. But they were freed under an amnesty and attempts to prosecute them failed even though 24 people were killed. More than 50 people were taken hostage, including the prime minister, who was bound and shot in the leg.After years of lingering questions about the attempted coup by Bakr and 113 armed rebels, a commission appointed by the government in 2010 has been taking a fresh look into the only Islamic revolt in the Western Hemisphere. The commission has held more than a dozen sessions over three years in an effort to understand better how and why the violent upheaval occurred. But the panel has no subpoena power and the findings are unlikely to lead to any arrests....
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