Just one data point, the democratically elected government of Guatemala was overthrown with support by the CIA and a military dictatorship installed that kille

Just one data point, the democratically elected government of Guatemala was overthrown with support by the CIA and a military dictatorship installed that killed about 150 000 people through disappearances etc.. Read up on the Guatemalan civil war. The history of every Latin American country reads very similar, ironically with the exceptions being the strongly soviet aligned countries.