Washington's Meddling in Foreign Elections
jacob g. hornberger : http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...ign-elections/
http://www.fff.org/2016/11/03/washin...ign-elections/
[L]et’s review some of the US government’s history of meddling with elections in others countries.
1. In 1953, the CIA secretly fomented a violent coup in Iran, which succeeded in ousting Mossadegh from power and making the Shah of Iran the supreme unelected dictator of the country. To fortify the Shah’s dictatorial hold on power, the CIA helped organize and train the his domestic police force, the Savak … Part of the CIA’s training involved teaching Savak agents the art of torture. For the next 26 years, the Iranian people suffered under one of the most brutal and tyrannical dictatorships in the world …
2. In 1951, the Guatemalan people democratically elected a man named Jacobo Arbenz … In 1954 … the CIA fomented a violent military coup that succeeded in removing Arbenz from power and replacing him with one of the most brutal unelected military dictators in Latin American history … Carlos Castillo Armas. … The CIA’s destruction of Guatemala’s democratic system threw the nation into a 30-year civil war that ended up killing millions of Guatemalan people, especially many of the poor.
3. In 1960 a man named Patrice Lamumba was elected Congo’s first prime minister after independence from Belgium. … The CIA orchestrated the assassination of Lamumba, which ended up taking place on January 17, 1961 …
4. In 1970 a man named Salvador Allende received a plurality of votes in the presidential election in Chile. Pursuant to the Chilean constitution, the election was thrown into the national congress. ... The CIA attempted to bribe members of the congress to vote against Allende. It also orchestrated the kidnapping of the head of Chile’s armed forces, Gen Rene Schneider … The kidnapping attempt on Schneider left him dead. The CIA then fomented a coup that took place on 9/11 1973 that violently ousted Allende from power and left him dead. Replacing him was army Gen. Augusto Pinochet, one of the most brutal unelected military dictators in history. By the time Pinochet’s 17-year reign of military terror came to an end in 1990, he and his CIA-supported goons had incarcerated, raped, tortured, or killed tens of thousands of innocent people … with the full support of the CIA, Pentagon, Nixon, and his “national security” team.
Of course, there are also the more recent support of regime-change operations that ousted democratically elected presidents … such as in Ukraine and Egypt. … And then there is the long list of countries where unelected dictators were targeted for regime change … and … replaced with a brutal unelected pro-US dictator. …
Known CIA Coups:
Washington organized "color revolutions" and attempted "color revolutions":
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