While I don't claim to know the exact date when this song was written, Document came out in 1987. I'm not sure where you're considering the line between "economic" and "military" to be drawn (seems to me it's kind of like talking about the "Russian mafia"), particularly when referring to such activities as providing not only funds but arms and personnel for training to the Contras and various authoritarian regimes (mainly military dictatorships, like that in Guatemala). In several cases the U.S.'s actions were condemned internationally, and in at least one that I know of the International Court...
While I don't claim to know the exact date when this song was written, Document came out in 1987. I'm not sure where you're considering the line between "economic" and "military" to be drawn (seems to me it's kind of like talking about the "Russian mafia"), particularly when referring to such activities as providing not only funds but arms and personnel for training to the Contras and various authoritarian regimes (mainly military dictatorships, like that in Guatemala). In several cases the U.S.'s actions were condemned internationally, and in at least one that I know of the International Court of Justice decided against the U.S., but Reagan (and later George H.W. Bush) refused to pay reparations, and the U.S. used its veto power to prevent the U.N. from passing a resolution asking it to do so (this seemed to me particularly petty since it was a non-binding resolution). Frankly, a lot of people worldwide consider that the Reagan administration was guilty of human rights violations for providing a variety of aid to governments and terrorist groups that were notorious for engaging in torture, murder of noncombatant civilians, "disappearing" people, etc.; it certainly was a violation of international law. (Reagan also, ah, sidestepped several U.S. laws. Remember something called the Iran-Contra affair?)
At the time the song was written, the "occupation" of most of Latin America was economic rather than military.
While I don't claim to know the exact date when this song was written, Document came out in 1987. I'm not sure where you're considering the line between "economic" and "military" to be drawn (seems to me it's kind of like talking about the "Russian mafia"), particularly when referring to such activities as providing not only funds but arms and personnel for training to the Contras and various authoritarian regimes (mainly military dictatorships, like that in Guatemala). In several cases the U.S.'s actions were condemned internationally, and in at least one that I know of the International Court...
While I don't claim to know the exact date when this song was written, Document came out in 1987. I'm not sure where you're considering the line between "economic" and "military" to be drawn (seems to me it's kind of like talking about the "Russian mafia"), particularly when referring to such activities as providing not only funds but arms and personnel for training to the Contras and various authoritarian regimes (mainly military dictatorships, like that in Guatemala). In several cases the U.S.'s actions were condemned internationally, and in at least one that I know of the International Court of Justice decided against the U.S., but Reagan (and later George H.W. Bush) refused to pay reparations, and the U.S. used its veto power to prevent the U.N. from passing a resolution asking it to do so (this seemed to me particularly petty since it was a non-binding resolution). Frankly, a lot of people worldwide consider that the Reagan administration was guilty of human rights violations for providing a variety of aid to governments and terrorist groups that were notorious for engaging in torture, murder of noncombatant civilians, "disappearing" people, etc.; it certainly was a violation of international law. (Reagan also, ah, sidestepped several U.S. laws. Remember something called the Iran-Contra affair?)