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minus-squaregarth@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·15 days agoTop image is Bolivian students being rounded up by the CIA-backed military in 1971. Middle picture is the US invasion of Panama in 1989. Bottom picture is current Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, and a certain US president who seems interested in removing Nicolás Maduro.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 days agoCouldn’t find something more futuristic for the middle image?
minus-squaregarth@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 days agoNot my meme, I stole it. But I think the Panama invasion was the end of the golden age (/s) of US fuckery in Latin America? Things were relatively quiet (or I’m uninformed) until the first Trump administration started fishing for coup participants.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-215 days agoI suppose that’s true, I can’t think of much in the 90’s, and it’s been long enough I would expect there to be declassifications.
Top image is Bolivian students being rounded up by the CIA-backed military in 1971.
Middle picture is the US invasion of Panama in 1989.
Bottom picture is current Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, and a certain US president who seems interested in removing Nicolás Maduro.
Couldn’t find something more futuristic for the middle image?
Not my meme, I stole it. But I think the Panama invasion was the end of the golden age (/s) of US fuckery in Latin America? Things were relatively quiet (or I’m uninformed) until the first Trump administration started fishing for coup participants.
I suppose that’s true, I can’t think of much in the 90’s, and it’s been long enough I would expect there to be declassifications.