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Exactly. Having armed forces ready to stage a coup any time their friends in the State Department or CIA encourage them leads you down the route of Honduras, C
by rodgerd 12y ago
Exactly. Having armed forces ready to stage a coup any time their friends in the State Department or CIA encourage them leads you down the route of Honduras, Chile, and so on.
- digi_owl 12y agoExcept that they could abolish the army because USA has underwritten their security. So in essence they have gone one further than Chile.
- rodgerd 12y agoCharacterising the situation of Central American states as having "the US underwrite their security" seems willfully at odds with actual history.