How many murderous dictatorships has the US installed or supported?
Let's count.
| Country | Dictator | Dates | Statistics |
| Chile | Gen. Augusto Pinochet | 1973-1990 | coup ordered and supported, 3095 murdered or "disappeared" according to the Chilean government. 400,000 tortured.
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| Argentina | Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla | 1976-1981 | 30,000 murdered. more
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| Indonesia | Suharto | 1965 coup against left-leaning Sukarno, 1975 support of East Timor genocide |
500,000 dead after 1965 coup; 100,000-230,000 dead in East Timor;
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| Guatemala | Armas, Fuentes, Montt, etc. | 1954-1986 | 200,000 killed or missing
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| Iran | The Shah of Iran | 1954-1979 | e.g., 25000-50000 political prisoners in 1975 alone (Amnesty Int'l)
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| (Ayatollah Khomeini was on the CIA payroll in the 1970s in Paris.)
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| Egypt | Sadat, Mubarak | 1978-today
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| Iraq | Saddam Hussein
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| Nicaragua | Anastasio Somoza & sons | 1937-1979
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| Paraguay | Stroessner. US supported throughout
(state.gov says US has supported Paraguayan development since
1942) ($142M between 1962 and 1975)
| 1954-1989
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| Bolivia | Col. Hugo Banzer overthrew elected leftist
president Juan Jose Torres
| 1970-
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| Angola | Jonas Savimbi/UNITA (didn't actually win his
revolution, but killed or displaced millions)
| 1975-1989
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| Zaire | Mobutu
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| Saudi Arabia | Saud family
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| Kuwait | a monarchy
| Atrocities on its own people by the government the US saved and reinstalled reported here
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| Morocco
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| Tunisia
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| Algeria
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| Jordan
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| Panama
| Noriega was US-supported for years
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| Haiti | Papa Doc, Baby Doc
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| Dominican Republic | Trujillo, a military dictator for
32 years with US support for most of that time; Belaguer, Trujillo's protege,
installed after US Marines intervened to put down an attempt to restore the democratically elected government of Juan Bosch
| 1930-61,
1965-78
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| Honduras
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| El Salvador | 1980s
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| Nepal | monarchy | since 1948
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| Cuba | Fulgencio Batista | pre-Castro
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| Brazil | Gen. Branco overthrew elected president Goulart with US support
| 1965-67
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| Uzbekistan | Kamirov "The Boiler", $150M from the Bush administration for an air base. | 1965-67
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There are some gaps of information there. If you know any details that could help fill the gaps, let me know, it would be much appreciated.
So I count 25. Rough numbers, let's not be picky.
I barely have 25 people in my pingpong club, we're talking 25 countries.
Now that's a bleeping crime.
So who's responsible? I am an American: I am responsible.
So what am I going to do about it? I'm going to be an American, and express myself, with attitude, about what I do and don't like in this world, and tell everyone what I think has got to be done. So keep on reading.
And you? Be an American too: make up your own mind, persuade yourself, and try to persuade the rest of them. Talk leads to action, so talk!