INFOGRAPHIC – Long history of US support for global coups

By Enes Canli and Ahmet Dursun</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – Washington’s direct support for the attempted coup against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday is not its first such intervention, as the U.S. has a long history of fueling coups.</p> <p>The U.S. supported coups not only in nearby countries and regions like Central America but also in the Mideast, Europe, and Far East, causing sorrow, deaths, and underdevelopment.</p> <p>Washington has been accused of participation in the 2002 coup attempt against then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said it was possible the George W. Bush administration had supported the foiled coup, along with international news agencies saying the CIA knew well about the plot.</p> <p> </p> <p>-US occupation of Haiti</p> <p>U.S. banks financed the government’s occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934.</p> <p>A partisan government appointed by the U.S. canceled the country’s foreign possession law.</p> <p>Conflicts led to deaths and underdevelopment for years in the small island nation.</p> <p> </p> <p>- ‘Banana Republics’ in Latin America</p> <p>In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S.-based United Fruit Company dominated the banana business and also had enormous political power in Guatemala and Honduras.</p> <p>United Fruit even played a role encouraging the 1954 military coup in Guatemala at the hands of the CIA.</p> <p>Once dominated by foreign-owned banana companies, the countries are still major fruit exporters, but suffer from both unstable politics and periodic U.S. intervention.</p> <p>Due to their dependence on Washington and lack of political and economic freedom, they are sometimes referred to disparagingly as &quot;banana republics,&quot; meaning politically unstable countries whose economies depend heavily on fruit exports, tourism, and foreign investors.</p> <p>Today, the U.S. still has influence on those countries through banana companies. It also has a military base in Honduras.</p> <p> </p> <p>- 1953 Iranian coup: US coups go global</p> <p>After two years in office, Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in 1953. After he announced a plan to nationalize the oil industry, the U.S.-British Operation Ajax was launched. The CIA admitted its role in the coup in 2013.</p> <p>The effect of the coup stretched to the 1979 Iranian revolution and beyond, with Western countries seen as enemies of Iran.</p> <p>U.S. Defense Department documents also showed the country’s support for the coup plot against North Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem.</p> <p>Dien and his brother were assassinated in a 1963 military coup, fueling the Vietnam War, in which millions died.</p> <p> </p> <p>- Chile</p> <p>Salvador Allende, the first Marxist president in Latin America, was overthrown by the U.S.-backed Alberto Pinochet on Sept. 11, 1973. During Pinochet’s 27-year military dictatorship, more than 3,200 opposition supporters were lost, more than 30,000 Chileans were arrested, and many were tortured.</p> <p>In 2000, the CIA released documents showing the coordination between the Chilean army and the CIA, resulting in the coup.</p> <p> </p> <p>- From ‘Our boys did it’ to 2016 coup attempt</p> <p>Turkey’s National Security Council, headed by Chief of General Staff Gen. Kenan Evren, declared a coup on Sept. 12, 1980. </p> <p>Former CIA operative in Turkey Paul Henze reportedly announced the coup, telling then-President Jimmy Carter: &quot;Our boys did it.&quot;</p> <p>Furthermore, then-U.S. President Barack Obama delayed condemnation of the defeated 2016 coup in Turkey by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), which killed 251 people and injured some 2,200.</p> <p>Washington’s attitude towards the coup attempt became clear when John Bolton, later President Donald Trump’s U.S. national security adviser, said on TV that the putschists — many of them rogue soldiers — “may be fulfilling the duty of protecting the secular state, which is the constitutional responsibility of the army.&quot;</p> <p> </p> <p>- Egypt</p> <p>Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi served for only one year, from June 30, 2012 to July 3, 2013. Morsi — the country’s first freely elected president and a Muslim Brotherhood leader — was overthrown and imprisoned by the army in a 2013 military coup under the command of Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.</p> <p>John Kerry, then-U.S. secretary of state, said, &quot;The Egyptian army is re-establishing democracy,&quot; showing Washington’s support for the coup. Later, the ruling military junta acted to disperse anti-coup demonstrations, leading to thousands of deaths.</p> <p>In the almost six years since, the authorities have cracked down on political dissent, killing hundreds of Morsi’s supporters and throwing thousands behind bars on trumped-up “violence” charges.</p> <p> </p> <p>

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