The historical list of U.S.-backed dictators includes:
René Barrientos (Bolivia), Fulgencio Batista (Cuba), Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei), P.W. Botha (South Africa), Humberto Branco (Brazil), Chiang Kai-Shek (China), Jean Claude Duvalier (Haiti), King Fahd (Saudi Arabia), Francisco Franco (Spain), Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt), Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan), Teodoro Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea), Sese Seko Mobutu (Zaire), Ríos Montt (Guatemala), Manuel Noriega (Panama), Maximiliano Martínez (El Salvador), Georgios Papadopoulos (Greece), Shah Pahlevi (Iran), Augusto Pinochet (Chile), António Salazar (Portugal), Anastasio Somoza (Nicaragua), Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay), General Suharto (Indonesia), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) and Jorge Videla (Argentina) …
While the historical list of democractically elected leaders who the U.S. helped overthrow includes:
Salvador Allende (Chile), Jacobo Arbenz (Guatemala), Víctor Estenssoro (Bolivia), João Goulart (Brazil), Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Mohammad Mosaddegh (Iran) and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana).
