by the CIA, the US military, and its proxies – a partial list since the 1950s
Imperial America — Coup Nation
- 2026 Nicolás Maduro – Venezuela – currently in prison
- 2021 Joe Biden (arguably) – USA – attempted block of transfer of power
- 2014 Viktor Yanukovych – Ukraine – exiled, sentenced to prison
- 2011 Muammar Gaddafi – Libya – murdered
- 2009 Manuel Zelaya – Honduras – exiled for two years
- 2003 Saddam Hussein – Iraq – imprisoned, then executed
- 2002 Hugo Chavez – Venezuela – arrested and held for three days
- 1991 & 2004 Jean-Bertrand Aristide – Haiti – exiled twice
- 1990 Manuel Noriega – Panama – imprisoned till death
- 1983 Hudson Austin – Grenada – imprisoned for 25 years
- 1981 Anwar Sadat (apparently) – Egypt – murdered
- 1975 Gough Whitlam – Australia – no other severe punishment
- 1975 Francisco Xavier do Amaral – East Timor – exiled for more than two decades
- 1973 Salvador Allende – Chile – murdered
- 1971 Juan José Torres – Bolivia – exiled, then assassinated
- 1967 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos – Greece – imprisoned for seven years
- 1966 Kwame Nkrumah – Ghana – exiled
- 1965 Sukarno – Indonesia – house arrest till death
- 1964 João Goulart – Brazil – exiled
- 1963 John F. Kennedy (apparently) – USA – murdered
- 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem – South Vietnam – murdered
- 1963 Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy – Ecuador – exiled
- 1961 Patrice Lumumba – Congo – assassinated
- 1954 Jacob Árbenz – Guatemala – exiled
- 1953 Mohammad Mossadegh – Iran – imprisoned, then house arrest till death
America has couped these sovereign leaders and countries above directly, or attacked by proxy, militarily or financially, along with many other countries and officials, for profit and power.
This partial list of coups are all right-wing coups, ousting left or more liberal leaders (or where a rare tyrant) at great cost of life and other harm to the people, to the benefit of American plutocrats and the plutocracy in general – basically blood and bodies for money.
In addition to these American-orchestrated and backed right-wing anti-democracy and profiteering coups, America and its proxies have assassinated many others leaders, officials, and human rights workers, and interfered in elections in virtually every country in the world, typically at great harm to the peoples and for great profit to American plutocrats, high finance, big corporations, and other profiteers.
America – the so-called security state, the military and police state – has similarly crushed many left or liberal governments and popular human rights movements in virtually every country in the world, including its own, repeatedly and constantly.
Internal to America, the CIA, FBI, and other politicized police forces have consistently killed directly or by proxy leftists, liberals, the poor, people of color, and human rights workers and environmentalists, while falsifying or killing investigations, typically to the benefit of the right-wing and the plutocracy.
Of course, the American military-police state is working to coup additional countries today, while continuing its other depredations at home and abroad, a notorious tradition that goes all the way back to the founding of this imperial country, from sea to shining sea, “manifest destiny,” Native “exterminating,” African enslaving, and Mexico invading from the start. America has always been an imperial aggressor, and long since the most destructive and aggressive country by far, with military installations and forces in most countries in the world and throughout all the oceans and seas. Also space.
America collaborated at times with Nazis (and fascists) against popular movements during and after World War II, both at home and abroad. The country is deeply white (male) supremacist, and it shows in its Presidency throughout time, in the structurally anti-democracy Senate, in the racist Constitution, in its bigoted and brutal prison system and many such social systems, and in many of its policies and laws ongoing.
Sovereign coups are terrible but little different from much of the rest of America’s pillaging and politicized, institutionalized tyranny and bloodshed, again, both at home and abroad.
- Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans killed by American invasion in the 1950s.
- Millions killed by American invasion in the 1960s and 1970s in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.
- Up to a million or more killed in Indonesia in the 1960s by American-backed forces.
- And up to 200,000 killed in East Timor in the following decades.
- Hundreds of thousands killed in Central America in the 1980s by American trained, backed, and armed forces.
- Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children killed by American economic sanctions in the 1990s.
- Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis slaughtered during the American invasion and occupation in the twenty-first century.
- Hundreds of thousands more Afghans killed by American invasion.
- Constant drone strikes worldwide.
- Today, since 2023 ongoing, the American-Israeli genocide of Palestinians – hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced.
- And since 2022 ongoing, the American instigation and arming and prolonging of the war between Ukraine and Russia – more than a million dead.
- Massive refugee flight and deaths in Latin America for many decades, due to killer American sanctions, other pillaging economic policies, and war.
And this is only a very partial list of American assault and pillaging worldwide, including in North America itself.
Fundamentally, the fight for the future is democracy and human rights pitted against plutocracy and bigotry, and it always has been. Meanwhile, plutocracy and bigotry wage their wars like never before.
The real, true, and full Great American Novel – the consciousness and conditions it would depict, reveal, and dramatize – shudder to think.
Imagine it in circulation.
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