Washington, DC, April 6, 2020 – Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive.
CIA Covert Operations: The 1964 Overthrow of Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana
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50 years after Chile’s coup, Salvador Allende’s grandson speaks about Britain’s role in the rise of Pinochet
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In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Margaret Thatcher’s friendship with Chile’s dictator and how Labour helped him evade justice for crimes against humanity.
50 years after Chile’s coup, Salvador Allende’s grandson speaks about Britain’s role in the rise of Pinochet
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