>>>The U.S. has been very generous and helpful throughout the recent history, especially when it comes to Europe. Think first world war, second world war, Marshall aid, rebuilding of Japan and Germany, etc. etc. Not so in Central and Latin America, though. Think Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, etc. etc. So, I don't think at least the Europeans really have much reason to complain when it comes to that. In my experience, having been born and raised in Europe, it is somehow fashionable or "intellectually cool" to criticize the U.S. over there. And the reverse is often true on this side of the Pond.
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>>Amen to that, being a Guatemalan I can tell you that your government provoked most of the political problems in my country and also they financed the army which was guilty of almost 95% of civil war crimes.
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>>Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not talking about US people but the government.
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>The actions of the US in South America are confuzing for me. I am positive about the US, but when people confront me with what the US did in countries like yours, I do not know what to say in defense of the US...

There really isn't much to say, because all of it was by and large indefensible. And you don't have to go that far back in history, either, to find mind boggling abuses of power. Oliver North and the Iran Contra affair with the gun smuggling, drug dealing, CIA's clandestine war "business model" that pushed Nicaragua pretty much over the edge and into an abyss of death squads and the trampling of even the most basic human rights. Begs the question: How does a country that came up with the Marshall Plan for Europe turn around and goes on a destructive binge like this in Central America? Does it have something to do with the race and/or ethnicity of the people in the receiving end? Whatever the case, the stated goal with both actions was to stop the spread of communism. Same goal but wildly different methods.