Since the end of WW2, the US government has directly or covertly overthrown governments in Chile, El Salvador, Cuba, Venezuela, Surinam, Grenada, Panama, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti (not strictly in Latin America but right on Cuba's doorstep) and Bolivia, and those are just off the top of my head. That many of the leaders installed by the USA were psychotic mass murderers (Pinochet, Noriega etc) was not considered important.
Why do you think the US government hates Hugo Chavez so much? He refused to sell the USA oil at mates' rates, and instead invests the profits in Venezuela's millions of poor people living in Barrios. He is trying to modernise Venzuela, which has brought him into direct conflict with the USA. Haiti has suffered the most, with 3 "regime changes" at the behest of the USA, with US special forces directly removing Aristide and booting him off to France. His crime? He introduced a minimum wage and worker's rights, and tried to end the cronyism in Haiti. There are so many US corporations that have products produced in Haiti at slave rates (Disney is the largest) that Aristide was never going to last.
Watch John Pilger's outstanding documentary "The War On Democracy" to really see how Latin America gets stuffed by the USA. It's available on youtube.
Edit; James, you can bleat & whine all you like, but let's see you actually prove me wrong instead of spouting the usual bollox about freedom
Haha, ok James. Off you go now, Waaaaaaaaaaah!
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