US-backed repressive regimes
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Argentina:  
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Brazil:
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Cambodia: Lon Nol
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Chile: Pinochet (vs. elected Allende) installed by CIA under orders from Nixon/Kissinger
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Congo (formerly Zaire): Mobutu Sese Seko
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Cuba: Fulgencio Batista
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El Salvador:
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Greece: the colonels' junta
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Guatemala: Gen. Efrain Rios Montt (seized power in a coup in 1982, committed genocide against Mayan peoples, deposed after 17 mos), part of a long string of military presidents who ruled from mid-1950s to 1986 
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Haiti: Papa Doc & Baby Doc Duvalier
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Indonesia: Suharto, installed by Kissinger, brutal repression of East Timor and others
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Iran: in 1953, the CIA overthrew the elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and installed Shah Reza Pahlavi who was in turn overthrown by the Islamic Revolution of 1979
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Iraq: Saddam Hussein
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Nicaragua: Somosa (vs. elected Sandinistas)
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Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos
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South Korea: Park Chung Hee
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South Vietnam: 
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Spain: Francisco Franco
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Uganda: Idi Amin
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Uruguay:
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Venezuela: in 2002 , Bush administration attempted to topple popularly-elected president Hugo Chavez
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