In 1954, the CIA believed that if PB Success worked in Guatemala, it would work in Cuba, but it didn’t because Cuba was different. PB Success was the CIA operation consisted of making Arbenz government look bad or ineffective. It drove Arbenz and his wife in exile. Because PB Success didn’t work, they decided that they had to go more extreme, so they launched the Bay of Pigs operation. By the early 1960s, there were left-wing uprisings in Central and South America: Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Perú, República Dominicana, Cuba, El Salvador. The American government was hostile to Salvador Allende’s government in Chile because his government helped people associated with Che Guevara that Americans are trying to capture. Allende was kind of communist, so Americans didn’t like him. American companies were afraid that President Allende would take their resources. On the other hand, in Chile, the rich people didn’t like them because they were taking money from the rich to help the poor.
Great topic and post. I would have included the believes and opinions of America and our government from these Central and South American countries as a result of the United States' actions.
ReplyDeleteI like how this post informs highlights on the Central and South American countries during the Cold War. Another thing that was great of the post was that you kind of demonstrated in a way, from order of events, that shows a domino effect from major incidents or complications going on in these countries below the U.S.. You could have wrote down more about other places in jeopardy of communist uprisings, like for example the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
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