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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the US had its hooks into the rest of the Americas. It engaged in a lot of interventionism in the name of containment during the twentieth century. The stereotype of the banana republic comes from US political capture of tropical states in the name of large corporate fruit growers.