Saturday, December 22, 2012

Crucifying Che

Ham handed Uncle Sam lost goodwill out here

If there is at all a fitting example of foreign policy blunder, it has to be US mess-ups in the Central & Latin America. Democratic Peace Theory, which has a claimant and champion in the form of United States believe that democratic characteristics is essentially the solitary or outstanding basis of interface between states. However, it fails to explain why US, the so-called champion of democracy, tried to topple every government in Central & South America, whom it either considered despotic or ‘Not democratic enough’ or ‘Not on its side.’ “US ideological conjectures and geopolitics interests have largely determined its acts and behaviour in Latin America. Whenever, there has been an issue between the US and Latin American republics, its diplomats have crumbled under pressure and fall back on stereotypes,” says Christopher I.

Clement, an expert on US policies in Latin America at Heritage Foundation, while talking to B&E. Truly, US have never sighed from toppling democratically elected governments. It all started in 1954 when the CIA engineered the ousting of the government of Guatemala. Again, in 1961, it attempted to overthrow the revolutionary Cuban government at the Bay of Pigs. After aborted and failed attempts, it lied low for few years. But in 1965, LBJ sent 10 battalions of paratroopers to Dominican Republic to fight the constitutional forces striving to recoup. He got success. Then in 1973, CIA successfully ousted the government of Allende in Chile in favour of a gory dictatorship. Similarly, in 1981, the then Reagan Administration started and funded the Contra war against Nicaragua.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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