ABSTRACT
Through both covert and overt wars, the imperial centers of capital of the twentieth century were denying those former colonial nations the very rights and freedoms loudly championed by the very people, and the nation, destabilizing them. When Iran gained its freedom after World War II, it was America's friend and wished to emulate both America's democratic government and economic success. Cold War Managers of State feared governments coming to power in free elections and taking control of the destiny of those peripheral countries, and the subsequent loss of control of their resources, not military attacks. With the exception that a free election was never permitted, the 1980 through 1982 suppression of El Salvador's break for freedom paralleled that of Guatemala. Libyan, Iranian, and Iraqi economic freedom meant they along with other newly developing oil-rich nations that would follow their lead, would build their own refineries and take over a significant share of the world's oil industry.
