Overthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List By William Blum
Overthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List By William Blum
Instances of the United States overthrowing or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
🇨🇳 China 1949 to early 1960s
🇦🇱 Albania 1949-53
🇩🇪 East Germany 1950s
🇮🇷 Iran 1953 *
🇬🇹 Guatemala 1954 *
🇨🇷 Costa Rica mid-1950s
🇸🇾 Syria 1956-7
🇪🇬 Egypt 1957
🇮🇩 Indonesia 1957-8
🇬🇾 British Guiana 1953-64 *
🇮🇶 Iraq 1963 *
🇻🇳 North Vietnam 1945-73
🇰🇭 Cambodia 1955-70 *
🇱🇦 Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
🇪🇨 Ecuador 1960-63 *
🇨🇬 Congo 1960 *
🇫🇷 France 1965
🇧🇷 Brazil 1962-64 *
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 1963 *
🇨🇺 Cuba 1959 to present
🇧🇴 Bolivia 1964 *
🇮🇩 Indonesia 1965 *
🇬🇭 Ghana 1966 *
🇨🇱 Chile 1964-73 *
🇬🇷 Greece 1967 *
🇨🇷 Costa Rica 1970-71
🇧🇴 Bolivia 1971 *
🇦🇺 Australia 1973-75 *
🇦🇴 Angola 1975, 1980s
🇨🇩 Zaire 1975
🇵🇹 Portugal 1974-76 *
🇯🇲 Jamaica 1976-80 *
🇸🇨 Seychelles 1979-81
🇹🇩 Chad 1981-82 *
🇬🇩 Grenada 1983 *
🇾🇪 South Yemen 1982-84
🇸🇷 Suriname 1982-84
🇫🇯 Fiji 1987 *
🇱🇾 Libya 1980s
🇳🇮 Nicaragua 1981-90 *
🇵🇦 Panama 1989 *
🇧🇬 Bulgaria 1990 *
🇦🇱 Albania 1991 *
🇮🇶 Iraq 1991
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 1980s *
🇸🇴 Somalia 1993
🇷🇸 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
🇪🇨 Ecuador 2000 *
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 2001 *
🇻🇪 Venezuela 2002 *
🇮🇶 Iraq 2003 *
🇭🇹 Haiti 2004 *
🇸🇴 Somalia 2007 to present
🇭🇳 Honduras 2009 *
🇱🇾 Libya 2011 *
🇸🇾 Syria 2012
🇺🇦 Ukraine 2014 *
Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?
A: Because there’s no American embassy there.
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William Blum was an author, historian, and U.S. foreign policy critic. He was the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, among others. Read more →
