Look at countries who declared a war against free markets - Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea. They are absolutely pathetic.
Your problem is thinking that covered operations make the world better. It obviously didn't work in Iran, Vietnam, Cambodia, Congo, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and many others countries. In fact it made the situation worse in most cases.
US sucks at finding and supporting right side.
If US just assassinated Castro but did nothing else communist regime won't fall, it can even gain stronger support from masses. The coup should be well prepared and US should feel responsibility about what will happen after.
Coup is definitely very difficult and complicated surgery.
No, they do a perfect job at finding the right side. They always install, whatever is best for them, ie. American Corporations.
The US does not care about human rights, it's all just used to legitimize their position. Capitalism has no conscious, it ONLY does what is most profitable, whatever it might be. What should they gain by having a democracy somewhere else? "Free Markets", is another topic. The US loves those, especially if their companies can expand their "market" or, even better, use the locals to produce under inhuman circumstances.
Considering that, I believe the US is a "great" imperialist power, and really good at choosing their puppets. What a pity those "stupid cubans", didn't give the US a second chance to exploit them under a different puppet. It would have been a lot better.
Haiti has huge anti-free market red tape and rampant corruption.
It means that Haiti did declare a war against free markets.
Free market economy is possible only in country with strong property rights, rule of law with no corruption, and no red tape. All countries which adopted these principles are rich and have very high standard of living.
I think 99.999% of folks who like communism/socialism don't understand what free market capitalism IS.
Those three words are where things get complicated. In a general sense red tape is the difference between a laissez faire economy and a free market economy, if you mean government regulation when you say red tape. Though by red tape you might also mean anti-competitve regulations implemented at the behest of a firm or sector of the economy. In that case it is still very important to acknowledge that free markets are not a natural state, and require regulation of some form to remain functional or even exist.
Free markets do require very strong laws but these laws should be:
1) In favour of strong property rights;
2) Equally friendly to new enterprises/small business/big business;
3) Lean, not over-complicated;
Basically role of the government is to keep highly competitive economic enthronement without favouritism.
It's hard to build a free market when you have an embargo and a huge pressure from the outside world