Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan Juyin Juya Halin Cuba na 1959 da aiwatar da gida a kasashe da yawa na ka'idar foco na Che Guevara, Amurka ta yi yaƙi a Kudancin Amurka a kan abin da ta kira "Communist subversives", wanda ya kai ga tallafawa juyin mulki a kan zaɓaɓɓun shugabanni kamar goyon bayan dama na Chilean, wanda zai ƙare da juyin mulkin Chile na Augusto Pinochet a 1973 a kan Salvador Allende wanda aka zaba ta hanyar dimokiradiyya. A shekara ta 1976, dukan Kudancin Amirka an rufe su da irin wannan mulkin kama karya na soja, da ake kira "juntas". A Paraguay, Alfredo Stroessner ya kasance a kan mulki tun 1954; a Brazil, shugaban hagu na hagu João Goulart ya hambarar da shi ta hanyar juyin mulkin soja a 1964 tare da taimakon Amurka a cikin abin da aka sani da Operation Brother Sam; a Bolivia, Janar Hugo Banzer ya hambarar da Janar Juan José Torres na hagu a 1971; a Uruguay, wanda aka ɗauka a matsayin "Switzerland" na Kudancin Amurka, Juan María Bordaberry ya karɓi iko a cikin juyin mulkin 27 ga Yuni 1973. A Peru, Janar Velasco Alvarado na hagu a kan mulki tun 1968, ya shirya yin amfani da sojojin Peru da aka ba da iko kwanan nan don mamaye sojojin Chile a cikin mamayewar da aka shirya na Pinochetist Chile. An gudanar da "Yakin Basira" a duk faɗin yankin, wanda ya ƙare da Operation Condor, yarjejeniya tsakanin ayyukan tsaro na Kudancin Kudancin da sauran ƙasashen Kudancin Amirka don murkushewa da kashe abokan adawar siyasa, wanda gwamnatin Amurka ta goyi bayan. Sojojin sun kuma dauki iko a Ajantina a shekarar 1976, sannan suka goyi bayan "Cocaine Coup" na Luis García Meza Tejada a shekarar 1980 a Bolivia, kafin horar da "Contras" a Nicaragua, inda Sandinista National Liberation Front, wanda Daniel Ortega ya jagoranta, ya dauki iko a shekarar 1979, da kuma
sojoji a Guatemala da kuma a El Salvador. A cikin tsarin Operation Charly, wanda Amurka ta goyi baya, sojojin Argentina sun fitar da dabarun ta'addanci na jihar zuwa Amurka ta Tsakiya, inda aka yi "yaƙin ƙazanta" har zuwa cikin shekarun 1990, wanda ya sa dubban daruruwan "sun ɓace".