[Covenantor]

Guess you are to young to recall Vice President being mobbed and spat upon and worse during a 1953 state visit to Venezuela. Was a big thing at the time.

Argentina favored the Axis powers during WWII so they were never friends of ours and their tepid sometime support of our policies was never to be counted on.

[kearnyirish2]

We supported military governments throughout Latin America in containing communism; did they build their own Skyhawks?

Pinochet was another abandoned by us (like Saddam, Diem, etc.); when the Cold War was over so was our support for them.