{"id":29986,"date":"2026-01-08T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29986"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:55:03","slug":"timeline-of-major-us-interventions-in-latin-america-1846-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29986","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of major US interventions in Latin America: 1846\u20132026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>James K. Polk (1846\u20131848):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Mexico.<\/strong>&nbsp;Invasion and occupation during the Mexican-American War, resulting in the annexation of Texas and California. In support of Gringo insurgents, depriving the inhabitants of their land and rights.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Theodore Roosevelt (1903):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Panama.<\/strong>&nbsp;Supported Panamanian independence from Colombia to secure U.S. control of the Panama Canal Zone. Some argue that the previous war with Spain over Cuba was a manufactured invasion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Howard Taft (1912\u20131925):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Nicaragua.<\/strong>&nbsp;Long-term Marine occupation to protect U.S. economic interests and prevent foreign canal construction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Woodrow Wilson (1915\u20131934):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Haiti.<\/strong>&nbsp;19-year military occupation following civil unrest and to secure U.S. financial control.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Guatemala.<\/strong>&nbsp;The CIA-led&nbsp;<strong>Operation PBSuccess<\/strong>&nbsp;overthrew democratically elected President Jacobo \u00c1rbenz after land reforms threatened U.S. corporate interests (United Fruit Company).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>John F. Kennedy (1961):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Cuba.<\/strong>&nbsp;The CIA had engineered the replacement of Batista with Castro.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then , the failed&nbsp;<strong>Bay of Pigs Invasion<\/strong>, where U.S.-trained exiles attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lyndon B. Johnson (1965):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Dominican Republic.<\/strong>&nbsp;Sent 22,000 troops to prevent a perceived &#8220;communist takeover&#8221; during a civil war.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Richard Nixon (1973):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Chile.<\/strong>&nbsp;Covert support for the military coup that deposed socialist President Salvador Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ronald Reagan (1981\u20131990): <\/strong><strong>Nicaragua\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Grenada.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Secretly funded&nbsp;<strong>Contra<\/strong>&nbsp;rebels against the Sandinista government.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Launched&nbsp;<strong>Operation Urgent Fury<\/strong>&nbsp;(1983) to invade&nbsp;Grenada&nbsp;and oust its Marxist government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>George H.W. Bush (1989):<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Panama.<\/strong>&nbsp;Launched&nbsp;<strong>Operation Just Cause<\/strong>&nbsp;to depose and capture General Manuel Noriega on drug-trafficking charges. He had previously&nbsp;been a CIA asset, but showed too much independence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Donald Trump (2026):<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Venezuela.<\/strong>\u00a0Launched\u00a0<strong>Operation Absolute Resolve<\/strong>\u00a0on January 3, 2026, featuring large-scale airstrikes and the capture of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who was flown to the U.S. to face narco-terrorism charge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30005,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions\/30005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}