The US began overthrowing governments in Latin America in the 1890’s, often working with internal elements, usually the military and the business community, to do so, Peter Kuznick, the director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, told Sputnik.
It’s the internal betrayal that is sometimes even more disturbing, because that is not a question of US egregious use of power…
That is some people committing the moral sin of working with the enemy, working with the aggressor, selling out the internal interests of the people in Chile or Guatemala or El Salvador, you go down the line.
Brazil, that in some ways is more offensive because it could be avoidable, Kuznick, coauthor of the Untold History of the United States together with Oliver Stone said.
Within the Catholic tradition, this is especially outrageous because this is what happened to Jesus Christ. Jesus was betrayed by Judas. And so within the Catholic theological tradition, this internal betrayal is the arch enemy.
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Now, in Jesus’ case, it wasn’t so much the outside forces, although that was at play also, but the focus on Judas. So Pinochet is the equivalent Judas, the historian pointed out.
So the US has its puppets. The USA has its cronies.
The USA has its betrayers who are willing to stab people in the back in order to get their own power for the military, he added.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
Latin America’s most celebrated heroes came from vastly different political traditions. What bound them together was not ideology, but a shared insistence on defending the interests of their people – and, above all, national sovereignty. In the 19th century, that struggle was directed against European colonial powers, primarily Spain.
By the 20th, it increasingly meant confronting pressure from the United States, which since at least the late 1800’s had openly framed the region – codified in doctrines and policy – as its strategic “backyard.
Those who chose accommodation over resistance left a far murkier legacy. Under intense external pressure, many leaders accepted limits on sovereignty in exchange for stability, investment, or political survival.
Over time, this produced a familiar historical pattern: figures who aligned with foreign power were readily replaced when they ceased to be useful, while those who resisted – often at great personal cost – were absorbed into national memory as symbols of dignity, defiance, and unfinished struggle.
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