Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Mgbanwe nke 1959 na Cuba na mmejuputa iwu obodo na mba ole na ole nke Che Guevara's foco theory, US lụrụ agha na South America megide ihe ọ kpọrọ "ndị Kọmunist na-agbagha agbagha", na-eduga n'ịkwado coups megide ndị isi oche a họpụtara n'ụzọ ọchịchị onye kwuo uche ya dị ka nkwado nke aka nri Chile, nke ga-ejedebe na 1973 Chile coup nke Augusto Pinochet megide Salvador Allende a họpụtara n'ụzọ ọchịchị onye kwuo uche ya. Ka ọ na-erule 1976, ọchịchị aka ike ndị agha yiri nke ahụ, bụ́ ndị a na-akpọ "juntas", achịala Ebe Ndịda America nile. Na Paraguay, Alfredo Stroessner nọ n'ọchịchị kemgbe 1954; na Brazil, onye isi ala aka ekpe bụ João Goulart ka a kwaturu site na ntuli aka ndị agha na 1964 site na enyemaka nke US na ihe a maara dị ka Operation Brother Sam; na Bolivia, General Hugo Banzer kwatuuru onye isi aka ekpe General Juan José Torres na 1971; na Uruguay, nke a na-ewere dị ka "Switzerland" nke South America, Juan María Bordaberry weghaara ike na 27 June 1973 coup. Na Peru, aka ekpe General Velasco Alvarado nọ n'ọchịchị kemgbe 1968, zubere iji ndị agha Peruvian nyere ikike n'oge na-adịbeghị anya iji merie ndị agha Chile na mwakpo a na-eme atụmatụ nke Pinochetist Chile. A lụrụ "Agha ruru unyi" n'ebe niile na mpaghara ahụ, nke mechara bụrụ Operation Condor, nkwekọrịta dị n'etiti ndị ọrụ nchekwa nke Southern Cone na mba ndị ọzọ dị na South America iji gbochie ma gbuo ndị mmegide ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, nke gọọmentị US kwadoro. Ndị agha ahụ weghaara ike na Argentina na 1976, wee kwado 1980 "Cocaine Coup" nke Luis García Meza Tejada na Bolivia, tupu ha azụlite "Contras" na Nicaragua, ebe Sandinista National Liberation Front, nke Daniel Ortega duziri, weghaara ike na 1979, yana
ndị agha na Guatemala na El Salvador. N'ime usoro nke Operation Charly, nke US kwadoro, ndị agha Argentine na-ebupụ usoro iyi ọha egwu steeti na Central America, ebe a na-alụ "agha ruru unyi" ruo n'ime afọ ndị 1990, na-eme ka ọtụtụ narị puku "apụ n'anya".