(Pardon the redundancy.)
But fears of a Red Dawn scenario were always delusional. And that’s my point.
It's not like that at all. The US relationship with South American countries was nothing like the Iron Curtain.
> Europe, sure.
And Central Asia, and many others.
> But america only really cared about that because of domino theory and it’s own empire to protect.
That's just an empty claim. How about some facts?
They did prop up or support right wing dictators that murdered our population and sometimes even waged futile war against other NATO allies (whooops!). On one thing we agree: the US didn't dirty their hands directly, they trained murderers in things like the School of the Americas and then sent them to do their dirty work.
What did America do in South America that you think is "the exact same thing" as the USSR's establishment — and four decades of control — of puppet communist governments across central and eastern Europe?
The Soviets were way less subtle and way more direct, but I believe there are geographical reasons for this.
The history of every Latin American country reads very similar, ironically with the exceptions being the strongly soviet aligned countries.