OVERTHROWN: The Real U.S. Foreign Policy — Coups, Corporations, and Control

Every single time a country stood up for its people, the United States asked one question:

“Who gets the resources?”

If the answer wasn’t America, the coup was coming.

From Iran to Guatemala, Chile to the Congo, Honduras to Indonesia, over 80 foreign governments have been overthrown or destabilized by U.S. intervention. And most weren’t dictatorships — many were democratically elected. Their crime? Putting people before profits.

The playbook hasn’t changed:
1. A nation elects a leader who wants to nationalize resources or raise wages.
2. U.S. corporations panic.
3. The CIA steps in — bribing generals, funding rebels, collapsing economies, planting propaganda.
4. The leader falls. A U.S.-friendly dictator rises.
5. The people are left with war, poverty, and trauma.

Iran’s oil. Guatemala’s land. Chile’s copper. Congo’s minerals. Indonesia’s labor. Honduras’s sovereignty. Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Brazil, and beyond…

This was never about “spreading democracy.” It was about protecting U.S. corporate power — at any cost.

If socialism or post-colonial independence worked anywhere, the illusion of capitalism’s inevitability would collapse. That’s why they sabotaged it. That’s why they still do.

It’s not history. It’s policy.
And until the truth is faced, the cycle will continue.