Cold War: Latin America – part 1/5

1954 – 1990 The United States has always regarded Latin America as its own backyard. Fearing the spread of communism, it seeks to destabilze leftist governments. In 1973, the CIA helps overthrow the Chilean president Salvador Allende; in the 1980’s it supports right wing extremists in Nicaragua and El Salvador. video sexy sex music rock rap funny news pop dance film short tv google evolution of dance avril lavigne girlfriend my chemical romance famous last words guitar snl digital special christmas box teenagers beyonce shakira beautiful liar akon don’t matter twitter facebook iphone search microsoft mobile social media yahoo trends apple advertising myspace social networking semantic web youtube rss firefox amazon mobile web friendfeed blogging security digg enterprise social networks android data portability politics marketing privacy lifestreaming email adobe app apps gmail api enterprise 2.0 cloud computing browsers obama startups flickr apps entertainment people blogs

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