> Yes, but all sides were roughly equal in power until the US came in and provided support to the far right faction, leading to 30000-50000 deaths from state sponsored terrorism, known as the dirty wars.
The US did some fucked up things in Latin America, but as the Argentina example shows, in part it was because Latin America was already fucked up.
At least economically, there’s been plenty of countries that have ended up better off as a result of repressive right wing governments. Chile’s GDP per capita growth matched that of the US from 1980-1990 under Pinochet, and significantly outpaced the rest of Latin America: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/GDP-per-capita-1980-2003...
But that’s not what caused the shitty economy. From 1930 to 1976, Argentina’s GDP per capita dropped from 75% of the US to under 50% of the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina.
The US did some fucked up things in Latin America, but as the Argentina example shows, in part it was because Latin America was already fucked up.
At least economically, there’s been plenty of countries that have ended up better off as a result of repressive right wing governments. Chile’s GDP per capita growth matched that of the US from 1980-1990 under Pinochet, and significantly outpaced the rest of Latin America: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/GDP-per-capita-1980-2003...