Failed Coup Against Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez​

​teleSUR columnist Eva Golinger uncovered CIA involvement in the April 2002 short-lived coup against former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. According to top secret documents, in the weeks leading up to the coup attempt the CIA noted in an intelligence brief titled “Venezuela: Conditions Ripening for Coup Attempt,” stated “Dissident military factions, including some disgruntled senior officers and a group of radical junior officers, are stepping up efforts to organize a coup against President Chavez, possible as early as this month, [CENSORED]. The level of detail in the reported plans – [CENSORED] targets Chávez and 10 other senior officers for arrest…” The document further states, “To provoke military action, the plotters may try to exploit unrest stemming from opposition demonstrations slated for later this month…” 
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​Operation Condor

​ ​Chilean Colonel Manuel Contreras, head of the fearsome DINA inteligence agency, was a key Operation Condor organizer. In 2000, the CIA acknowledged that Contreras had been paid by the CIA between 1974 and 1977, a period when the Condor network was planning and carrying out assassinations in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. 
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Che Guevara's Execution

Ernesto “Che” Guevara was not born a revolutionary. He grew up in a middle-class Argentine family and trained to be a doctor, preparing to live a bourgeois life. But unlike others in his class, he was unable to shut his eyes to the injustices upon which material wealth was based: generational poverty and state-imposed policies designed to keep the poor ignorant and exploited. Life blessed him with the opportunity to live out his days in comfort, but instead he died age 39, fighting for revolution, murdered by CIA agents Oct. 9, 1967, in the jungle of Bolivia.
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​Coup in Guatemala​

​Progressive labor and land reforms in Guatemala during the country’s 10-year flirtation with democracy between 1944-54 proved unpalatable for Washington. Largely at the behest of the United Fruit Company, which looked to suffer huge profit losses as a result of these reforms, in 1954 the CIA planned and executed a coup against then President Jacobo Arbenz. What followed was a succession of brutal military regimes and a 36-year internal conflict that started in 1960 and left over 200,000, mostly Indigenous Guatemalans killed, and tens of thousands tortured and disappeared.
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Chile’s 9/11

On Sep. 11, 1973, the progressive government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a U.S.-backed, CIA-orchestrated military coup. The coup was led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who later consolidated power and ruled Chile with an iron fist until 1990.
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