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>30 years is not long enough for everyone involved to be dead and no longer influential... and that doesn't even touch on whether the reason it happened is stru
by AnAfrican 9y ago
>30 years is not long enough for everyone involved to be dead and no longer influential... and that doesn't even touch on whether the reason it happened is structural.
Context matters.
With the end of the cold war, the oligarchy doesn't get to use a threat to gather support.
And a certain level of diversification of those economies have made the very powerful less power.
My second point is that half of South America had left wing government and there was no Coups.
Things would have been very different for Lula or Correa in the 70's.
- senorjazz 9y agoerrrr, a little history for you. Coup attempt in Venezuala where Chavez was kidnapped and fly out of the country until the people came onto the streets. CIA implicated [1] [2] Coup attempt in Ecuador a few years back Correa held [3]. Although am not aware of any covert involvement or evidence to imply. However, as is often the case with these Latin America issues, accusations are always laid at the US doorstop. But Correa did make the US leave their Manta based army base, did make anti US noise, did get close to Chavez and Ecuador is an oil producing country so it wouldn't be completely unreasonable to think so involvement based on past behaviour of the US.. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised_(documentary) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ecuador_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ecuador_crisis