From plotting to kill Cuba’s communist leader Fidel Castro with a poisoned milkshake, to staging a CIA-backed coup against Guatemala’s elected government, the US has made many attempts to reshape its “back yard” — often with unintended consequences.
President Donald Trump’s deployment of a large military force off Venezuela to unseat revolutionary socialist leader Nicolás Maduro has reawakened memories of America’s history of “gunboat diplomacy” in the region.
John Coatsworth, a historian at Columbia University, has counted at least 41 successful US interventions to change governments in Latin America between 1898 and 1994.
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