Not including the Bay of Pigs, or Cuba or even a cliche War with Mexico, is there any Country in South America that the US would intervene in, to stop the Spread of Communism or any hostile dictatorship, in a similar scenario to Vietnam during the Cold War.
Vietnam style warfare in the South American Cone during the Cold War.
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Anyplace that the USSR would be supplying heavy weapons to as they did with the North, that was attacking a country with good US relations, yes, there would be a similar build-up like South Vietnam had
I think the “southern cone” terrain of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and probably Paraguay is much less suitable for this than the more jungle-y, tropical and mountainy Andean countries and Brazil.
Yeah, that's the thing. Vietnam could be resupplied by land as well as sea, so their fraternal socialist allies could get them the things they needed even when Haiphong harbour was being mined. South America does not have a land route to the USSR, however. It might not be politically possible for the US to blockade all of South America (militarily, they probably could), but they could certainly reduce any incoming supplies to the nation(s) in question to only a trickle.
Che Guevara takes over Bolivia and from then on launches revolution all over the region
Communist insurrection in Colombia, backed by an ATL Communist Brazil, that McNamara worries will domino Panama?
So big weapons like APC aircraft and even SAMs are out of question
We can probably smuggle in RPG MANPADS and SMGs by Llama , and donkeys
Otherwise low flying An-2 dropping supplies as night intruders
Requisitioned civilian cargo vessels and perhaps communists infiltrating and taking over the drug smuggling
Maybe Cuba will become a base for soviet cargo submarines by which more supplies can be landed ashore ( like narcosubs)?
Bolivia can become a "Cuba". Becoming a Communist country after a revolution from there using his geographic position start send communist help to another groups like FARC, shining path and anothers, and later can adquire weapons or even military training from communist powers like Russia do in Vietnam or Africa. Even Guevara can try to make Bolivia a North Korea militarization style
Apparently US deployed a significant military force, including a carrier, to chive support to 1964 Coup generals if necessary, so Washington was ready to intervene in Brazil.
Probably the country will have a military intervention by the local governments. Paraguay alone wins a war against Bolivia. A coalition made up of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile and Peru would likely overthrow the government through economic pressure alone without the US having to intervene. The FARC, for example, when it tried to expand into Brazil, suffered a serious relationship on the part of the Brazilian military and after that it did not try to expand in the region. Cuba survived because it was an island.
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Easy. Torrijos nationalizes the Panama Canal. @KingSweden24 has a great timeline on a potential Ford second term that covers Panama and South America extensively.
Bolivia has the kind of infrastructure to support such operations? Without massive outside support
All this Bolivia talk reminded me of an earlier post I made here:
See post #5 -
What if, well before Che's misadventure in Bolivia, the MNR revolution in that country (1952) goes well outside of bounds acceptable to the US, its leadership Victor Paz Estenssoro leans more on the Bolivian Workers Centre faction of the movement under Juan Lechin, and reaches out to Moscow and Beijing?
WI: A Red Venezuela instead of Cuba
What would have been the actions or the course of the Cold War if Che Gevara had set his sights on Venezuela, ruled until 1958 by a military dictatorship, instead of Cuba? If there had been during the 50s instead of '59 in Cuba? Would Venezuela still align with the USSR, or even still host SS20...
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What if, well before Che's misadventure in Bolivia, the MNR revolution in that country (1952) goes well outside of bounds acceptable to the US, its leadership Victor Paz Estenssoro leans more on the Bolivian Workers Centre faction of the movement under Juan Lechin, and reaches out to Moscow and Beijing?