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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

As if the US ever needed someone's blessing to perform a coup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

difference is that now they don't have to invent a reason like iraqi wmd's

the point is moot however, the colombians have already caved like the americans wanted them to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, did we invent reasons for the rest of our South American coups? We did like 20 of em in the last century. Just pretended the CIA wasn't involved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yes: it was either the "war on drugs" or the Monroe doctrine