American-Backed Coups, Mapped

You didn't mention that education, electricity, medical insurance, and gas were free during Qaddafi's rulership. The reason why they wanted him out was that he tried to establish an African Union which has a currency connected with gold reserved instead of the petrodollar.

Part of being American is thinking your country is Superman but slowly realizing that it’s actually Homelander

You should include Indonesia. There are declassified CIA documents showing the CIA involvements in Indonesia's 1965 coup. In 1966-67 US gained most control over Indonesian oil & minerals explorations, most notably the once biggest gold mine on earth: the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. Just only recently Indonesia gets 51% share of this mine, previously Indonesia only got less than 4% 👍🏻🇮🇩🏆

Actually under Gaddafi, Lybia was a pretty good society. Under Gaddafi, Libya had free healthcare, free education for both men and women, free housing, and ultra-cheap electricity. Libya under Gaddafi had some of the highest rates of life expectancy, literacy, and per capita GDP in all Africa.

This is why I laugh when I hear about American politicians complaining about other countries trying to “interfere” in their elections.

It baffles me that many Americans still believe their government is doing only good by getting involved in foreign conflicts.

Wild that you missed operation Condor. One of the most brutal and inhuman coups tied directly to the US.

I don't know much about Gaddafi and also used to think he was a completely bad guy, but he made me realise how the United Nations was built in a completely unfair way for the majority of the world, it is mainly benefitting a handful of countries who have more powers than others, namely the US & Russia. This video was very insightful and @JohnnyHarris I truly thank you for what you do! Videos like this and the conversations they encourage give me hope that we can fix humanity's trajectory and eradicate the hate we have for one another.

As a Chilean I feel sad that the military coup in my country was not presented. Letting history out is one of the few ways to make amends for the brutal damage the US has inflicted on my people.

In general, the people who benefitted from these coups were American corporations at the expense of the civilians living in those countries. Also, these coups often crushed political movements that may have increased democracy and/or improved the living conditions of the poor and working class people of those countries. These coups are why Central America is such a dangerous place to live today and why so many people are fleeing to America. The U.S. govt, for the benefit of American corporations, is responsible for today's migrant crisis at the border. Greed.

You only missed some 40-50 more coups. And also managed to mischaracterize most of those presented. Other than that, everything's spot on!

You failed to mention the Maidan Coup in Ukraine in 2014 which is still causing huge problems today.

You forgot about Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in 1966. One of the most important coup of the African continent.

Many Americans still don’t know what the U.S. did to other countries. Thank you for this video, it’s important we talk about history even if we don’t like it.

hilarious that Dulles is your thumbnail for government officials involved. He should be considered Mr.Coup

General Gaddafi was a well loved leader. He was generous and his people prospered under him. He was showing the world how leaders should look after their people but the Americans didnt like that. So they smeared him savagely before killing him.

As a Guatemalan the multiple coup that the USA has perpetrated have traumatized our country.

So much dirt on their hands and they have audacity to say they want democracy

Gaddafi was not captured and killed on the spot. He was inhumanly tortured and humiliated before he was killed.

Imagine a world where America just stayed out of other countries business