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    How many democratically elected state leaders in the world were deposed by the United States?

    Question #107303. Asked by author. (Jul 22 09 7:17 AM)


    BRY2K

    		At least one that I can verify: the 1953 coup of democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq.

    The coup was carried out by the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower in a covert action advocated by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles under the supervision of his brother Allen Dulles, the Director of Central Intelligence.

    The coup was organized by the United States' CIA and the United Kingdom's MI6, two spy agencies that aided royalists and mutinous Iranian army officers.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

    Jul 22 09, 11:40 AM
    Arpeggionist

    		Mussolini would be another, in 1945, though how "democratic" his election was is up for debate.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini)

    Jul 22 09, 12:10 PM
    star_gazer

    		After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, the deposed President of the Confederacy, sat in a Federal prison in the city of Baltimore, Maryland as a common prisoner of war waiting to see what fate would be his lot. He was despised by the prison guards who attended him and many had expressed in no certain words what they hoped would happen to him.

    http://www.caioof.org/Books/Treasures.html



    Jul 22 09, 3:31 PM
    author

    		As far as I can see both Chile, Guatemala and Dominican Republic should be represented here. Maybe also Panama?

    Jul 24 09, 5:28 AM

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