So it's more like "they remain mired in poverty because of the United States' predilection for predatory capitalism."
This is regime change /that we know about/. Intelligence agencies haven't made a huge habit of discussing their covert successes.
> Venezuela has been hostile to the US, yet they are still there.
Yes, because the international response would be quite severe if the US decided to what - destroy Venezuela?
Foreign occupations and coups decimate countries who then have to deal with the effects for generations. The new regime is usually beholden to the powers that put it there (or the old one has to abide by the occupier's demands), permanently crippling the government or the economy or both. Many countries continue to suffer under the conditions created by their overthrowers, so maybe they share some blame but it's largely the longlasting effects of foreign incursions.
> You have to try harder if you want to blame their issues on the US.
It's really not that difficult to understand cause and effect here. If you destroy a country's economy, divide its people, cripple it's infrastructure, and install an authoritarian government, it's going to take a long time to recover.
I.e. there's no evidence.
It's not like the CIA likes to document its dark-ops in Latin Am. on wikipedia as proof for you.
This is still not proof of anything happening, just because someone wants something to be true doesn't make it so.
"Argentina’s Long Road to Ruin A century’s worth of corruption and leftist politics devastated this once-rich nation."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/argentinas-long-road-to-ruin-hy...
Also, your article is unfortunately paywalled, but an op-ed from someone at the WSJ isn't going to change my mind.
ended 40 years ago. The article I cited is today.
> but an op-ed from someone at the WSJ isn't going to change my mind
Not very open-minded to close your mind to something you haven't read. Do you know what is happening to Argentina today?
I'm no liberal. And I used to read the Wall Street Journal every day before Murdoch.
Now it's a pack of lies all the time.
The descendants of those families still have huge wealth and influence in South America.
And IIRC, a lot of people in power in the USSR made a lot of money out of the collapse of the USSR.
Heck, there's some mid-level KGB dude who made $200 billion off it.