>>Any international affairs. The common perception is that the U.S. is fond of poking its nose into other people's business.
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>Can you give me some specific instances?

First of all, let me clarify that I was not claiming that the U.S. is such-and-such - I was reporting on what the people on the street say.

People have strong anti-U.S. sentiments here, and will often not be very reasonable about it. They are just as convinced about the U.S. being guilty, as you are that they are not <g>.

Some specific complaints are:

That the U.S. supposedly was involved in the rising of a military dictatorship in Chile, and perhaps in a few other Latin American countries as well (pressumably considering the dictatorships a lesser evil, as compared to communism). (Try doing a search on "Plan Condor" - this will give you some interesting information.)

Specifically in Bolivia, the war against the Ancient and Holy Leaf (1), which has already caused lots of unrest, and several deaths. The Bolivian government wages a war against the Leaf, and receives money from the U.S. in exchange.

It is also said that in several other government policies, our government is "submissive" to the U.S., and does about anything the U.S. asks of Bolivia.

There was quite a scandal when the U.S. ambassador recommended not to vote for a certain candidate (2). Of course, I am aware that the ambassador may have acted on his own, without this being the official U.S. policy. I am almost certain that more people voted for this candidate, due to this foreign interference. Another political party even made the claim (absurd, IMO) that this was the intention!


Notes:

(1) Erythroxylon Coca
(2) For Evo Morales, who represents the interest of the coca growers.

Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)