US Politicians 'Run' Latin American Nations, Who Knew?
The Hill highlighted Trump's 2020 admission, "When I left, we had it down to nothing. We had it run. I ran it." (His words, not ours.) The outlet then sought congressional reactions, finding bipartisan dismay. One might wonder where this dismay was during the countless other times the U.S. has openly meddled, sponsored coups, or imposed sanctions devastating to civilian populations across Latin
America. The banana republics weren't named for their fruit. This isn't an 'if,' it's a 'when.' From the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala, overturning a democratically elected government for United Fruit Company profits, to Operation Condor's reign of terror across South America, the U.S. doesn't just 'run' nations; it often installs 'friendly' dictators to do the running. The media's sudden
shock over a candid admission isn't an exposé; it's a carefully curated Amnesia Tour, obscuring a century of overt interventionism as routine foreign policy.