US-backed repressive regimes

Argentina:

Brazil:

Cambodia: Lon Nol

Chile: Pinochet (vs. elected Allende) installed by CIA under orders from Nixon/Kissinger

Congo (formerly Zaire): Mobutu Sese Seko

Cuba: Fulgencio Batista

El Salvador:

Greece: the colonels' junta

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

Haiti: Papa Doc & Baby Doc Duvalier

Indonesia: Suharto, installed by Kissinger, brutal repression of East Timor and others

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

Iraq: Saddam Hussein

Nicaragua: Somosa (vs. elected Sandinistas)

Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos

South Korea: Park Chung Hee

South Vietnam:

Spain: Francisco Franco

Uganda: Idi Amin

Uruguay:

Venezuela: in 2002 , Bush administration attempted to topple popularly-elected president Hugo Chavez