Brazil, Lula, Big Oil and the Project to Destroy BRICS

[Peter Lemkin]

Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

• China 1949 to early 1960s
  
• Albania 1949-53
  
• East Germany 1950s
  
• Iran 1953 *
  
• Guatemala 1954 *
  
• Costa Rica mid-1950s
  
• Syria 1956-7
  
• Egypt 1957
  
• Indonesia 1957-8
  
• British Guiana 1953-64 *
  
• Iraq 1963 *
  
• North Vietnam 1945-73
  
• Cambodia 1955-70 *
  
• Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
  
• Ecuador 1960-63 *
  
• Congo 1960 *
  
• France 1965
  
• Brazil 1962-64 *
  
• Dominican Republic 1963 *
  
• Cuba 1959 to present
  
• Bolivia 1964 *
  
• Indonesia 1965 *
  
• Ghana 1966 *
  
• Chile 1964-73 *
  
• Greece 1967 *
  
• Costa Rica 1970-71
  
• Bolivia 1971 *
  
• Australia 1973-75 *
  
• Angola 1975, 1980s
  
• Zaire 1975
  
• Portugal 1974-76 *
  
• Jamaica 1976-80 *
  
• Seychelles 1979-81
  
• Chad 1981-82 *
  
• Grenada 1983 *
  
• South Yemen 1982-84
  
• Suriname 1982-84
  
• Fiji 1987 *
  
• Libya 1980s
  
• Nicaragua 1981-90 *
  
• Panama 1989 *
  
• Bulgaria 1990 *
  
• Albania 1991 *
  
• Iraq 1991
  
• Afghanistan 1980s *
  
• Somalia 1993
  
• Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
  
• Ecuador 2000 *
  
• Afghanistan 2001 *
  
• Venezuela 2002 *
  
• Iraq 2003 *
  
• Haiti 2004 *
  
• Somalia 2007 to present
  
• Libya 2011*
  
• Syria 2012
  

Q: Why will there never be a coup d'état in Washington?
A: Because there's no American embassy there.