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IT CAN be hard to choose your favourite when the number of options are frankly overwhelming. However, by casting your eye down the by know means complete list of US backed coups, it may spark a treasured memory of a coup you hold dear.

Some bad coups, some good coups, some in between coups, this list really has something for everyone.

What's Your Favourite US Backed Coup? Samoan Civil War 1887-89

Kingdom of Hawaii 1893

Philippine-American War 1899

China 1898-1901

Panama 1903

Nicaragua 1912-13

Mexico 1914

Haiti 1917-1934

Dominican Republic 1916-1924

Russia 1918

Panama 1941

South Korea 1945-1950

China 1946-1949

Greece 1946-1949

Philippines 1946-1954

Egypt 1952

Italy 1947-1970s

Syria 1949

Iran 1953

Guatemala 1954

Laos 1955-60

Indonesia 1957-59

Lebanon 1958

Iraq 1959

Laos 1960

Dominican Republic 1961

Cuba 1960s

Brazil 1961-64

Iraq 1963

Vietnam 1963

Dominican Republic 1965-66

Indonesia 1965-67

Greece 1967

Bolivia 1971

Iraq 1972-75

Chile 1973

Afghanistan 1979-89

Poland 1980-89

El Salvador 1980-92

Nicaragua 1982-89

Grenada 1983

Panama 1989

Kuwait 1991

Haiti 1991

Iraq 1991-2003

Indonesia 1997

Yugoslavia 2000

Iran 2005

Palestinian territories 2006-07

Syria 2005-present

Libya 2011

Egypt 2013

Yemen 2015-present

Venezuela 2001/2017-present

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