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“I look forward to a great future for America--a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal--to discover and maintain liberty among men.”
The United States government and its branches have throughout history ignored the meaning of these quotes, just as it has ignored human rights violations in the interest
of capitalism. In Nicaragua a major anti-socialist group was committing atrocities: Rape,
starvation, and disciplinary tethering were tortures that new contra recruits were forced to endure. The contras were supported unconditionally by Washington and trained by the
C. I. A. In Chile the Pinochet military junta murdered thousands of Allende’s supporters. The regime was backed fully by the White House. Over the course of the past century and a half, economic and strategic interests were put above all moral and ethical priorities when involved in foreign countries. This nation’s leaders con
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The actual death toll has been obscured through U.
America’s involvement in Latin American countries goes far beyond some bombings of air bases and a small invasion force bound for failure. Such methods of terrorism were considered perfectly legitimate. In Nicaragua it was for monetary purposes.
Official accounts spoke of 202 dead Panamanian civilians, 314 dead Panamanian soldiers, and 23 dead Americans. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has challenged the government figure of 202 dead civilians and former U. ) Bipartisan pressure has been applied to Washington to lift the forty-year-old sanctions against Cuba so that normal trade relations may be implemented (and thus more money may be made by American business owners), but the U.
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