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They failed in Venezuela recently but that didn't stop them from trying. There was a democratic Senator who ascribed the failure to Trump's incompetence.

Most of Latin America had had a US backed coup at some point in its history. Many very successful. Pinochet, etc.



And this is a very good example of what I said.

US only ever managed to use staged coups to unseat civil governments, and failed miserably with tougher targets like real totalitarian regimes.

The only notable exception I think was Noriega, who was a joke of a dictator, and possibly even put in power with American help in the first place.


Except that the spooks failed even when it came to unseating Noriega because they had to call in the military to stage an invasion.

The only two cases that I’m aware of where the US clandestinely toppled a foreign government were Chile and Iran - and apparently even the Iranian operation was mostly driven by the British secret service. And by all accounts, Chile was more of a nudge than a push.




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