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Yeah we should ask Costa Rica, Korea, China, Burma/Myanmar, Guatemala (not a communist, but wanted land reforms), Iraq, Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq again: The Empire Strikes (with) Ba'ath, Brazil (not even a communist again, just wanted trade with China and land reforms) Cambodia again. Bolivia, Chile, Angola, Poland (don't forget), Nicaragua, Grenada, Iraq again: A New Gulf, Haiti (not even a communist again), Iraq again, Haiti again to undo the last one, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Iraq again (Mission Accomplished), Haiti again to undo the undoing, Honduras (kinda? only person on the planet to become more leftist after being elected), Bolivia, Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela.
I think that's most of the most overt ones. Not even counting the ones in the Middle East other than Iraq cause it started by being scared of communists and cause it's funny. Also not counting soft power things and things like, say, US intelligence having ties to the judge that sentenced Lula, making him unable to compete in the 2018 elections and giving the world Bolsonaro
Don't forget the Indonesian Genocide, one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century