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  1. #OTD (Sep 18) in 1969, #Bonanno Crime Family bigshot Frank #Mari disappears along with his aide Mike Adamo and is presumed to be a casualty of the ongoing #BananaWars.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory #NYC

  2. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ William Daniel Leahy ✧

    William Daniel Leahy (6 May 1875 – 20 July 1959) was the most senior United States military officer on active duty during World War II, and the first to hold a five-star rank in the U.S. Armed Forces. An 1897 graduate of Annapolis, Leahy saw active service in the Spanish–American War, the Philippine–American War...

    #UnitedStates #WorldWar #AmericanWar #BananaWars #CentralAmerica #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_

  3. 1933: Cuba

    "In 1898, the same year the U.S. annexed Hawaii, its victory in the Spanish-American War also gave it control of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines as U.S. territories, as well as an excuse to begin a military occupation of Cuba. After President Theodore Roosevelt asserted America's right to intervene militarily in Latin America in 1904-5, the U.S. began to do so more frequently in the #CaribbeanBasin countries, including the #DominicanRepublic, #Nicaragua, #Mexico, #Haiti, #Honduras—and Cuba.

    "After recognizing Cuba as an independent nation in 1902, the U.S. withdrew its military from the country with the caveat that it would still intervene militarily to protect American interests in the future. Over the next three decades, the U.S. frequently invaded Cuba and other Caribbean countries in the so-called “#BananaWars,” to help quash #abor strikes and revolutions that threatened U.S.-owned sugar, fruit and coffee businesses.

    "In 1933, it backed military leader Fulgencio Batista’s coup to overthrow the Cuban government. After Fidel Castro violently ousted Batista and established the Western hemisphere’s first communist regime, President John F. Kennedy attempted to overthrow Castro’s government in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. This failed coup not only represented America’s ongoing #imperialist attitude toward its southern neighbors; it also showcased a newer interventionist arm: the #CIA."

    history.com/news/us-overthrow-

    #HumanRights
    #Covert
    #Corporatism
    #Corporatocracy
    #Corruption
    #Capitalism
    #Colonialism

  4. @pojntfx

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    ...technical possibility (#API), but how would companies continue to do business? For many small (or bigger) businesses, a #Facebook page is (alas) an important means to do marketing communications and engage with its (potential) customers and other stakeholders.
    The #US have become a plutocracy. The have fought many wars (e.g. the #OilWars, the #BananaWars, arguably WWI) just to secure their markets and investments. Blocking a whole continent and one of...

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