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Observatorio Latinoamericano de Salud.Ecuador was swindled out of 40.000 million US dollars,while in Argentina the bank fraud amounted to60.000 million US dollars, impoverishing millions ofmiddle class Argentineans, Ecuadorians and Mexicans,and benefiting the bankers who transferredtheir finances to the U.S.A.2.-Concealed Operations.The CIA, created in 1947by president Truman following the signature of theNational Security Law, was chiefly responsible forgathering and analyzing information about the externalenemies of the United States to permit thePresident, the Pentagon and Congress to respondto existing and potential menaces. Nevertheless, itsoon turned into the dirty arm of its government,transmitting the message that "the interests ofNorth-American companies in Latin America arenot to be touched," even if those companies wereinvolved in plundering, massacre, or extortion.Among more than 6,000 concealed operations, wewill mention those that stand out: the overthrowthe elected president Arbenz in Guatemala (1954),support of the United Fruit Company; the murderattempts against Fidel Castro (from 1959 to 2005);the propaganda campaign against elected Dominicanpresident Bosch, which ended in a coup (1965); themillionaire propaganda campaign against elected presidentJoão Goulart, who nationalized a subsidiary ofthe ITT in Brazil (1964); the murder of Ernesto ChéGuevara in Bolivia (1967); the three years of destabilizationof the Chilean government of elected presidentAllende and the coup which put an end to hislife (1973) by order of Kissinger-Nixon and the ITTcompany; the organization of the Cóndor operationfrom the Kissinger-Nixon axis with the collaborationof the Latin-American military dictatorships and thepurpose of eliminating all left-wing politics of SouthAmerica (1970); the murder of the first Ecuadorianpresident elected after the military dictatorship, JaimeRoldós, in an aerial attempt on the 24th of May,just nine weeks before the murder of Omar Torrijos;with his death, the Texaco company obtains one ofthe most important contracts of its history in thecountry, one which had been denied by Roldós; themurder of Panamanian president Omar Torrijos, whowas assassinated under Nixon, as he could not bebought with the million US dollars Nixon "offered.Prior to this, with the intention of discrediting Torrijos,they tried to make him appear as a drug dealer.Torrijos neutralized this maneuver and frustrated threemore murder attempts against him. Nevertheless,on the 31st of July of 1981, his plane crashed asa result of sabotage.The United States does not believe in elections, unlessthese favor puppets who accept the policies oftheir corporations.3.-Wars and Military Interventions. The dictatorshipsof the 70’s, sponsored by the U.S.A., annihilatedthe anti-imperialists, nationalists and independents,and left in their place military and socio-economicalinstitutions which permitted the US banksand multinationals to conquer Latin-American economies.Through policies of state terror, the autonomouslabor unions were eliminated, hundreds ofthousands of expert technicians, professionals andresearchers were exiled, and simultaneously any residualresistance to these policies was avoided.The objective was to paralyze several coming generationsthrough terror, thus: 1954-Guatemala, theU.S.A. organized a coup against Arbenz, which producedfour decades of dictatorship with more than200,000 peasant and indigenous deaths and 40,00041