Stephen Kinzer, also in the Sunday NYT, discusses a historical conference in Chicago, some of which I saw on CSPAN, discussing the US-backed coups in Iran and Guatemala. He points out that after the absence of any communist threat had been averted by overthrowing democratic governments that "the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country".
:: posted by buermann @ 2003-12-01 14:44:47 CST |
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