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Texas, settled primarily by Anglo-Americans, fought a successful war of independence against Mexico in 1836. Mexico refused to recognize the independence and warned that annexation to the United States meant war. US Annexation of Texas occurred in 1845; predictably, war followed annexation in 1846. Due to an ambush, the American military was ...
The U.S. government ran a psy ops action in Chile from 1963 until the coup d'état in 1973, and the CIA was involved in every Chilean election during that time. In the 1964 Chilean presidential election , the U.S. government supplied $2.6 million in funding to Christian Democratic Party presidential candidate Eduardo Frei Montalva , to prevent ...
Texas, which had been ... published in 1898: ... the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and the support of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
José Miguel Carrera leads a successful coup d'état in Chile. October 7: Near Vallenar the silver deposit of Agua Amarga is discovered. [54] December 2: The congress of Chile is dissolved and José Miguel Carrera initiates a dictatorship. 1812: Hostilities begin between the moderados, led by Bernardo O'Higgins, and the exaltados, led by Carrera.
A family’s day in court. Last month, the U.S. Department of State called the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile —which resulted in democratically-elected president Salvador Allende ...
Fifty years after a 1973 coup in Chile that ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule and saw some 40,000 people imprisoned, disappeared, tortured or killed, Reuters went with five former ...
The US government supported the 1971 coup led by General Hugo Banzer that toppled President Juan José Torres of Bolivia. [9] Torres had displeased Washington by convening an "Asamblea del Pueblo" (Assembly of the Town), in which representatives of specific proletarian sectors of society were represented (miners, unionized teachers, students, peasants), and more generally by leading the ...
NBC News' Trymaine Lee details the history behind an 1898 coup by white supremacists in North Carolina that targeted Black lawmakers in the nation's only successful coup.