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US Intervention in Latin America
and the Caribbean - a Chronology
"I spent thirty three years and four months in active service as a member of our country’s most agile military force,
the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks, from a second lieutenant to major-general. And during that
period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the
bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism...I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National
City Bank to collect revenues in...I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking house of Brown
Brothers...I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916…"
US General, Smedley D Butler, 1935
USA Pole, another at the Panama Canal and the
third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere
will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our
superiority of race, it already is ours morally."
1914: The US navy shells the port city of Veracruz,
an attack apparently caused by the refusal of
some Mexicans to salute the Stars & Stripes.
During World War I, the US also invaded
Mexico and Hispaniola (present day
Dominican Republic and Haiti). They stayed
for 20 years.
1933: US forces leave Nicaragua leaving dictator
Anastasio Somoza and his National Guard in
control.
1954: The CIA orchestrates the overthrow of the
democratically-elected government of Jacobo
Arbenz, in Guatemala. A Guatemalan poet
described the Arbenz government as "years of
spring in a country of eternal tyranny." Almost
40 years of violence and repression followed,
culminating in the "scorched earth" government
terror of the 1980s. Over 150,000 people
lost their lives.
1961: US-backed forces invade Cuba but suffer
defeat at the Bay of Pigs.
1965: 23,000 troops sent to the Dominican
Republic to "restore order", following a popular
uprising against the country ’s military
regime.
1973: A US-backed coup overthrows the elected
government of Salvador Allende, ushering in
the regime of General Augusto Pinochet.
1981: The Reagan Administration initiates the "contra
war" against the Sandinista government in
Nicaragua.
1983: US invasion of Grenada.
1989: US invasion of Panama to arrest one-time protégé,
Manual Noriega. The operation leaves
thousands of civilian casualties.
1990: Massive US intervention in the Nicaraguan
election process through covert and overt
means. Washington openly funded the opposition
coalition, yet such foreign funding of US
parties would be illegal under US law.
2000: As part of the "War on Drugs", the US launches
Plan Colombia, a massive civil and military
aid programme for a country with perhaps the
worst human rights record in the hemisphere.
Total US funding is $1.3 bn, with 83 percent
of that going to the military. Plan Colombia
later becomes subsumed into the War on
Terror.
2002: The US supports and funds elements that
organised the unsuccessful April 11 coup in
Venezuela.

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