"Socialism has never had a chance to take root in Latin America due to USA intervention. So there's no real way to tell if it would have benefited the people or not, it's never had a chance to grow."
Thank you so much for pointing that out, Jahcub Onelove. So few people get that the CIA has attacked and eventually toppled almost every government that wouldn't "side with" the U.S. as a vassal state, and that includes any developing nation that wanted to experiment with socialism. The CIA's Mockingbird (domestic media propaganda) program cut its teeth during the Cold War and fully perfected the Narrative of "failed socialism" and "socialist dictators" to convince the largely brainless masses of American people that its coups, death squads, civil wars and genocides were committed for the cause of "freedom and democracy". The CIA eventually expanded its control of the media to included virtually all Western news outlets.
I'm glad you brought up the CIA-engineered ousting of the popularly-elected socialist president Salvador Allende in Chile. That was actually one example I was going to cite, but there are so many to choose from that I selected Nicaragua instead. Graveyards and unmarked mass graves all over Latin America bear silent witness to the ghastly consequences of two centuries of incessant U.S. interventions and manipulations of the politics & commerce in that part of the world.
The current situation in Venezuela is perfectly consistent with a cookie cutter CIA destabilization and regime change operation. The problem has been that, like the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, the Chavistas and the notion of an independent Venezuela free of U.S. puppet masters have been quite popular with the majority of Venezuelans. It's taken a protracted and ruthless effort by Langley and multiple White House administrations to slowly break the will of the Venezuelan people & erode their support for democracy and independence. The CIA is counting on eventually breaking the popular will and re-installing a Washington puppet in Caracas and, if history is any indication, it will be successful.
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