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> fund brutal despots in Latin America Well, that's a lie, he actually did the opposite of this. I remember clearly when Rosalind Carter went to Brazil and ga
by diego_moita 4y ago
> fund brutal despots in Latin America
Well, that's a lie, he actually did the opposite of this.
I remember clearly when Rosalind Carter went to Brazil and gave a speech there praising democracy and respect to human rights in front of the dictator Ernesto Geisel. I remember the U.S. Department of State criticizing the dictatorship for the practice of torture.
And I do remember that he strongly and successfully pressed the dictatorship against developing nuclear weapons.
- just_a_quack 4y agoAs far as I can discern, the Carter administration, much like its predecessor, was responsible for providing the most of the arms used during the East Timor genocide. However I don't believe that Carter supported Latin American dictators. He stopped all US arms sales to Argentina, for one.
- unity1001 4y agoAnd yet they did absolutely nothing about neither that dictatorship, nor any of the others. They kept backing them and trading with them and those dictatorships survived for decades more.
- diego_moita 4y agoPlease go study history, you are as wrong as the comment above. The Brazilian dictatorship began to collapse before the end of the Carter administration. When Carter left there was a new president in Brazil that removed censorship for the press, ended political torture and granted amnesty to all political prisoners. > those dictatorships survived for decades more. No. Almost all dictatorships in South America ended less than 10 years after Carter left office. "Backing them" is something that Thatcher and Reagan did for Pinochet but not Carter.
- unity1001 4y ago> No. Almost all dictatorships in South America ended less than 10 years after Carter left office Read operation condor and see if the dictatorships actually ended.
- dventimi 4y agoDid you know that there are other countries besides Brazil in the region conventionally referred to as Latin America? https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/01/14/carter-decides-to-resume-military-aid-to-el-salvador/16084fe6-8174-49dc-be5f-a5a147566f96/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/01/14/c...