General Barrientos came to power in the aftermath of the overthrow of the MNR-dominated government of Paz Estenssoro in a CIA-backed coup.

In Guatemala, a CIA-backed military coup ousted the left-wing President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954.

Let's take a look at a few of them: Iran - In 1953, a CIA-backed coup ousted Iran's popular prime minister and restored power to the Shah of Iran.

On February 24, 1966, Nkrumah was overthrown by an allegedly CIA-backed coup.

Eventually a CIA-backed coup ("Operation Freedom") made the country into a military dictatorship which it remains to this day.

Since the CIA-backed coup in 1954, opposition groups were continuously forming in an attempt to fight against the repression that the military and wealthy landowners in Guatemala had created.

An Iranian Odyssey (about the CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran)

June 18: The elected leftist Guatemalan government is overthrown in a CIA-backed coup.

Chile's democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown during a CIA-backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet.

In 1965, a CIA-backed military coup brought down this government and installed army chief Mobutu as president.