its world country in the Western world where its terests are threatened.
The principles involved spelt out their clearest form in 1965 when the House of Representatives voted, by 312 to 52 that "The US or any other American country (sic) has the right of unilateral intervention in order to keep communism outside the Western Hemisphere. Praticen us interests ant practice has meant threatened the government sends in the marines or finances a coup.
Some of the most famous events in a calen dar of atrocity and violadon l sovereign Hallula rights are: 1953: Iran. Radical prime Mossadegr is overthrown with US spon sorship and the brutal dictatorshop of the Shah is in1954: Indochina. Eisenfirst states the US interest after Tne French are defeated by the communist Minh the battle of Dien Bien Phu. Indochina and the essential to the both for strategic reasons' US News and World Report clarifies these interests thus: 'One of the world's richest areas is open to the winner in Indochina rubber, • rice, key strategic raw materials are what the war is really about.' 1954: Guatemala. Liberal president Arbenz is removed by a US invasion. The 1962: : Peru. Peruvian al my , led by US-trained col onel, overthrows govern met.
1964: Brazil. Presiden Goulart accused smuggling communism inlo brazi and overturned it right-wing coup after which Brazil becomes the centre • of Latin auctica 1965: Vietnam. President Johnson Vietnam patrol boats at Seventh Flee Tacked int 'in self-defence" in itiates large-scale bombin of civilian targets in North Harold Wilson, Prime Minister. supports him. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon says 'we - have totally flouted the rule of law we have flouted the United Nations Charter. The USA is drawn into full scale war in Vietnam the first war it lost.
1973: Chile. The democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende is overthrown and the murderous dictatorship of General Pinochet imposed.
1974: The USA has nov secured pro-US i dietator: American countries - the most major very actalors removal it now claims as 'wave of By •now 70,000 Latin American of ficers have attended US training schools, notably an illegal centre at Ford Gulick in the Canal Zone which specialises in counterinsurgency.
1983: After nearly a decade of semipatalysi. following defeat in Vietnam, the USA overruns and imposes a government which already, according the Counci Hemispheric Affairs 'Has LSe worst human rights record in the Caribbean'.
Today: The USA has now installed world-wide policy of aid to counterrevolutionary forces. backs the Nicaraguan Contras. Savimbi's South African-backed UNITA rebels in Angola, and even the barbarous government of Cambodia
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of no less than 69 countries, operates the world largest terror network. Since 1945 it has maintain sovereign right to intervene militarily in