Title: United States involvement in regime change in Latin America - Wikipedia
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United States involvement in regime change in Latin America
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History
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
See also
References

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Participation of the United States in regime change in Latin America involved US-backed coups d'état aimed at replacing left-wing leaders with right-wing leaders, military juntas, or other authoritarian regimes. Lesser intervention of economic and military variety was prevalent during the Cold War in line with the Truman Doctrine of containment, but regime change involvement would increase after the drafting of NSC 68 [Full Document] which advocated for more aggressive combating of potential Soviet allies. Several instances of intervention and regime change occurred during the early-20th-century "Banana Republic" era of Latin American history to promote American business interests in the region. United States influenced regime change in this period of Latin American history started after the signing of the Treaty of Paris in the wake of the Spanish-American War. Cuba gained its independence, while Puerto Rico and the Philippines were occupied by the United States. Expansive and imperialist U.S. foreign policy combined with new economic prospects led to increased U.S. intervention in Latin America from 1898 to the early 1930s. Contents
1 History
1.1 Argentina
1.2 Bolivia
1.3 Brazil
1.4 Chile
1.5 Costa Rica
1.6 Cuba
1.7 Dominican Republic
1.8 El Salvador
1.9 Guatemala
1.10 Nicaragua
1.11 Panama
1.12 Paraguay
1.13 Peru
1.14 Uruguay
1.15 Venezuela
2 See also
3 References
History
Argentina
See also: National Reorganization Process, Dirty War, 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and Argentine economic crisis
Jorge Rafael Videla meeting Jimmy Carter in 1977
In Argentina, military forces overthrew the democratically elected President Isabel Perón in the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, starting the military dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael Videla, known as the National Reorganization Process, resulting in around 30,000 forced disappearances. Both the coup and the following authoritarian regime was eagerly endorsed and supported by the United States government with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger paying several official visits to Argentina during the dictatorship. Among the many human rights violations committed during the period were extrajudicial arrests, mass executions, torture, rape, disappearances of political prisoners and dissenters, and illegal relocations of children born from pregnant women (both pregnant before their imprisonment or made pregnant by the continuous rape).