In Venezuela, the pattern of coup d’états seemed to occur after each oil concession. For instance, US mining company Bethlehem Steel was able to continue mining manganese in Brazil for four percent of the income of exporting it during the country’s transition to dictatorship. Section 2 Summary: “By-Products of the Subsoil: Coups d’état, Revolutions, Spy Dramas, Etc.”įor Galeano, there is a link between US intervention in Latin American politics and access to its countries’ resources. He further states, “The internal stability of the world’s greatest power is closely linked with its investments south of the Río Grande” (152). Galeano declares that this means that the US will always seek natural resources elsewhere for its own advancement. While the US has tried to extract these materials domestically, these resources are not as plentiful within the country as it is abroad. These materials are used to fortify US military weapons, design planes, and fuel jet engines.
The US has a vested interest in Latin America for its mineral resources such as petroleum, aluminum, copper, and zinc.
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