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ica, and a strong presence of the Soviet Union which supported Cubadue to their own geopolitical motives which opposed those of the NorthAmericans. It was a new and huge chapter of the Cold War.Washington decided to act ruthlessly, raising the flag of anti-communismand anti-Sovietism, so since 1960 and throughout almost twentyyears the continent saw a scattering of coups that included Brazil, Argentina,Uruguay, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic,etc. The script used was always the same: break relations with Cuba, persecutionof “communism”, interpreted as patriotic military sectors andcertain sectors of the Catholic Church. Extrajudicial executions, masspersecution, torture, disappearances and political exile came to be thedaily bread.By the way, the emblematic figure with which the CIA kicked off thisperiod was Philip Agee, brilliant and young operations officer that carriedout a broad plan in Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico during thoseyears of terror, from 1960 to 1968.Unfortunately, the fragility of the collective memory and the speedof the current technological changes allow for this recent history to beignored and, in the same way, the presence of the CIA to be underestimated.Its colossal development runs alongside globalization, thecrisis of capitalism, the oil wars (Libya, Iraq, for example), the desire forone-sided domination by the United States, acolyte of old Europe andoligarchies everywhere.This is the reason being of the present publication: contribute towaking the historical memory of our people and Our America, if possible.With the warning that the revolutionary progressive advances inthe continent make the CIA intervention more dangerous, through coup10