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Is There One Thing That Happened in Latin America?
It takes a certain kind of rotten brain to be like a literal State Department employee pointing to Latin America as proof that liberal democracy sort of organically triumphs over any ideological opponents. I do believe that authoritarian governments struggle to hold on to power in various little ways, right? And that can manifest in the collapse of those governments. There's all sorts of shit that can happen. This is sort of something you saw all over the world at the time, right? The United States was not pro liberal democracy. It was anti communist, right? Anti socialist. To the extent that democratic countries were producing left wing governments, the United States was stepping in and trying to interfere.