Honduras and Haiti

Weisbrot on Honduras and Haiti.

He talks about their importance to US foreign policy and the demonstration effect:

In October of 1970, President Richard Nixon was cursing in the Oval Office about the Social Democratic President of Chile, Salvador Allende. "That son of a bitch!" said Richard Nixon on October 15, 1970. "That son of a bitch Allende – we're going to smash him." A few weeks later he explained why:
“The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success .... If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble ...”