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    This is the best answer. @ScottTaylor Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 2:13
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    It's amusing how every single person who points out the US interference in Latin America speaks of it as if it existed in a vacuum, and those countries would be bastions of freedom otherwise, not under the boot of the USSR who sponsored and trained the communist parties in those countries. Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 2:31
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    @PedroWerneck It is amusing how some people imagine that the whole universe can be reduced to the United States and the Soviet Union. Nay, it is even more amusing how people continue to believe that the Soviet Union can do anything even after its collapse and disappearance. Good grief. Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 3:14
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    @LuísHenrique Are you saying the countercoups in Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Venezuela happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Or were you just trying to pin a straw man on me? Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 3:17
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    The coups in Honduras and Paraguay happened after the fall of the Soviet Union, as the failed coup in Venezuela. Also the parliamentary coup in Brazil last year. Come on, the messing with Latin American democracies by their supposed ally in the North is an ongoing tradition, that only shows signs of relenting when the US is busy messing with other regions of the world - like the Middle East under George II Bush. Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 3:36