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      9 months ago

      The list was compiled in 2002 so it’s missing a lot of contemporary ones.


      with the purpose of effecting “regime change,” attempted or materially supported by the United States—whether primarily by means of overt force (OF), covert operation (CO), or subverted election (SE):

      1893 – Hawaii (Liliuokalani; monarchist): success (OF)
      1912 – China (Piyu; monarchist): success (OF)
      1918 – Panama (Arias; center-right): success (SE)
      1919 – Hungary (Kun; communist): success (CO)
      1920 – USSR (Lenin; communist): failure (OF)
      1924 – Honduras (Carias; nationalist): success (SE)
      1934 – United States (Roosevelt; liberal): failure (CO)
      1945 – Japan (Higashikuni; rightist): success (OF)
      1946 – Thailand (Pridi; conservative): success (CO)
      1946 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): failure (SE)
      1947 – France (; communist): success (SE)
      1947 – Philippines (
      ; center-left): success (SE)
      1947 – Romania (Gheorghiu-Dej; stalinist): failure (CO)
      1948 – Italy (, communist): success (SE)
      1948 – Colombia (Gaitan; populist/leftist): success (SE)
      1948 – Peru (Bustamante; left/centrist): success (CO)
      1949 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): success (CO)
      1949 – China (Mao; communist): failure (CO)
      1950 – Albania (Hoxha; communist): failure (CO)
      1951 – Bolivia (Paz; center/neutralist): success (CO)
      1951 – DPRK (Kim; stalinist): failure (OF)
      1951 – Poland (Cyrankiewicz; stalinist): failure (CO)
      1951 – Thailand (Phibun; conservative): success (CO)
      1952 – Egypt (Farouk; monarchist): success (CO)
      1952 – Cuba (Prio; reform/populist): success (CO)
      1952 – Lebanon (
      ; left/populist): success: (SE)
      1953 – British Guyana (; left/populist): success (CO)
      1953 – Iran (Mossadegh; liberal nationalist): success (CO)
      1953 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
      1953 – Philippines (
      ; center-left): success (SE)
      1954 – Guatemala (Arbenz; liberal nationalist): success (OF)
      1955 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
      1955 – India (Nehru; neutralist/socialist): failure(CO)
      1955 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): success (CO)
      1955 – China (Zhou; communist): failure (CO)
      1955 – Vietnam (Ho; communist): success (SE)
      1956 – Hungary (Hegedus; communist): success (CO)
      1957 – Egypt (Nasser; military/nationalist): failure (CO)
      1957 – Haiti (Sylvain; left/populist): success (CO)
      1957 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO)
      1958 – Japan (; left-center): success (SE)
      1958 – Chile (
      ; leftists): success (SE)
      1958 – Iraq (Feisal; monarchist): success (CO)
      1958 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
      1958 – Sudan (Sovereignty Council; nationalist): success (CO)
      1958 – Lebanon (; leftist): success (SE)
      1958 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO)
      1958 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (SE)
      1959 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
      1959 – Nepal (
      ; left-centrist): success (SE)
      1959 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO)
      1960 – Ecuador (Ponce; left/populist): success (CO)
      1960 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
      1960 – Iraq (Qassem; rightist /militarist): failure (CO)
      1960 – S. Korea (Syngman; rightist): success (CO)
      1960 – Turkey (Menderes; liberal): success (CO)
      1961 – Haiti (Duvalier; rightist/militarist): success (CO)
      1961 – Cuba (Castro; communist): failure (CO)
      1961 – Congo (Lumumba; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO)
      1961 – Dominican Republic (Trujillo; rightwing/military): success (CO)
      1962 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): failure (SE)
      1962 – Dominican Republic (; left/populist): success (SE)
      1962 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (CO)
      1963 – Dominican Republic (Bosch; social democrat): success (CO)
      1963 – Honduras (Montes; left/populist): success (CO)
      1963 – Iraq (Qassem; militarist/rightist): success (CO)
      1963 – S. Vietnam (Diem; rightist): success (CO)
      1963 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO)
      1963 – Guatemala (Ygidoras; rightist/reform): success (CO)
      1963 – Ecuador (Velasco; reform militarist): success (CO)
      1963 – United States (Kennedy; liberal): success (CO)
      1964 – Guyana (Jagan; populist/reformist): success (CO)
      1964 – Bolivia (Paz; centrist/neutralist): success (CO)
      1964 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): success (CO)
      1964 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/marxist): success (SE)
      1965 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): success (CO)
      1966 – Ghana (Nkrumah; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO)
      1966 – Bolivia (
      ; leftist): success (SE)
      1966 – France (de Gaulle; centrist): failure (CO)
      1967 – Greece (Papandreou; social democrat): success (CO)
      1968 – Iraq (Arif; rightist): success (CO)
      1969 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist): failure (CO)
      1969 – Libya (Idris; monarchist): success (CO)
      1970 – Bolivia (Ovando; reform nationalist): success (CO)
      1970 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): success (CO)
      1970 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): failure (SE)
      1971 – Bolivia (Torres; nationalist/neutralist): success (CO)
      1971 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
      1971 – Liberia (Tubman; rightist): success (CO)
      1971 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO)
      1971 – Uruguay (Frente Amplio; leftist): success (SE)
      1972 – El Salvador (; leftist): success (SE)
      1972 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): failure (SE)
      1973 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): success (CO)
      1974 – United States (Nixon; centrist): success (CO)
      1975 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): success (CO)
      1975 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): failure (CO)
      1975 – Bangladesh (Mujib; nationalist): success (CO)
      1976 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): failure (SE)
      1976 – Portugal (JNS; military/leftist): success (SE)
      1976 – Nigeria (Mohammed; military/nationalist): success (CO)
      1976 – Thailand (
      ; rightist): success (CO)
      1976 – Uruguay (Bordaberry; center-right): success (CO)
      1977 – Pakistan (Bhutto: center/nationalist): success (CO)
      1978 – Dominican Republic (Balaguer; center): success (SE)
      1979 – S. Korea (Park; rightist): success (CO)
      1979 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (CO)
      1980 – Bolivia (Siles; centrist/reform): success (CO)
      1980 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO)
      1980 – Italy (; leftist): success (SE)
      1980 – Liberia (Tolbert; rightist): success (CO)
      1980 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): success (SE)
      1980 – Dominica (Seraphin; leftist): success (SE)
      1980 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO)
      1981 – Seychelles (René; socialist): failure (CO)
      1981 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): failure (CO)
      1981 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist); success (CO)
      1981 – Zambia (Kaunda; reform nationalist): failure (CO)
      1982 – Mauritius (
      ; center-left): failure (SE)
      1982 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): success (SE)
      1982 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO)
      1982 – Chad (Oueddei; Islamic nationalist): success (CO)
      1983 – Mozambique (Machel; socialist): failure (CO)
      1983 – Grenada (Bishop; socialist): success (OF)
      1984 – Panama (; reform/centrist): success (SE)
      1984 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (SE)
      1984 – Surinam (Bouterse; left/reformist/neutralist): success (CO)
      1984 – India (Gandhi; nationalist): success (CO)
      1986 – Libya (Qaddafi; Islamic nationalist): failure (OF)
      1987 – Fiji (Bavrada; liberal): success (CO)
      1989 – Panama (Noriega; military/reform populist): success (OF)
      1990 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): failure (SE)
      1990 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE)
      1991 – Albania (Alia; communist): success (SE)
      1991 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): success (CO)
      1991 – Iraq (Hussein; military/rightist): failure (OF)
      1991 – Bulgaria (BSP; communist): success (SE)
      1992 – Afghanistan (Najibullah; communist): success (CO)
      1993 – Somalia (Aidid; right/militarist): failure (OF)
      1993 – Cambodia (Han Sen/CPP; leftist): failure (SE)
      1993 – Burundi (Ndadaye; conservative): success (CO)
      1994 – El Salvador (
      ; leftist): success (SE)
      1994 – Rwanda (Habyarimana; conservative): success (CO)
      1994 – Ukraine (Kravchuk; center-left): success (SE)
      1996 – Bosnia (Karadzic; centrist): success (CO)
      1996 – Russia (Zyuganov; communist): success (SE)
      1996 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): success (CO)
      1996 – Mongolia (*; center-left): success (SE)
      1998 – Congo (Kabila; rightist/military): success (CO)
      1998 – United States (Clinton; conservative): failure (CO)
      1998 – Indonesia (Suharto; military/rightist): success (CO)
      1999 – Yugoslavia (Milosevic; left/nationalist): success (SE)
      2000 – United States (Gore; conservative): success (SE)
      2000 – Ecuador (NSC; leftist): success: (CO)
      2001 – Afghanistan (Omar; rightist/Islamist): success (OF)
      2001 – Belarus (Lukashenko; leftist): failure (SE)
      2001 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE)
      2001 – Nepal (Birendra; nationalist/monarchist): success (CO)
      2002 – Venezuela (Chavez; reform-populist): failure (CO)
      2002 – Bolivia (Morales; leftist/MAS): success (SE)
      2002 – Brazil (Lula; center-left): failure (SE)