Is there any evidence that the US (whoever calls the shots, a question you conveniently left out) tried to "reinstate a corporate friendly dictator" rather than a democractic government?

The "vassal, puppet state" rethoric seems hardly helpful...

I grant you that in the cold war, the US were more interested in denying the soviets an ally on their front steps rather than to help the Cuban state to evolve. But back then there were all these puppet wars, nuclear missiles and nasty rethoric going on...