Dusty’s Reviews > Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq > Status Update

Directors of large corporations were the first to wish Mohammad Mossadegh, Jacobo Arbenz, and Salvador Allende overthrown… In each case government stepped in to lead a parade that had already formed for other reasons. Ideology and economic interest combined to drive the United States to intervention.” (216)

Interesting, kernel quote: “ some of those who directed Cold War interventions, like John Foster, Dulles, devoted their lives to the service of American corporate power. Others, like Henry Kissinger, had no real interest in business and even regarded it with disdain. All of them, however, believed that only malicious regimes would try to restrict or nationalize foreign companies.”

Gotta get it back from the library 😕