Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Memos Show Nixon’s Bid to Enlist Brazil in a Coup


New released documents show that Richard Nixon and General Emilio Medici of Brazil discussed the overthrow of Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro, and all other leftest regimes in South America. I wonder how Hugo Chavez is going to react to finding out both his dear neighbors are in bed with the "Great Evil". Everyone already knows that Colombia will do the U.S.'s bidding because we give them billions of dollars in aid every year to "fight" the drug trade, but the relationship with Brazil was still unclear. The US has been following the Monroe Doctrine in South America since it was instated by the 5th president James Monroe. Any threat in South America will be unilaterally delt with by any means neccessary. read here.

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