CIA coups and American trade

In yesterday’s class, guest lecturer Yvon Grenier mentioned that the United States supported Latin American dictators during The Cold War. In fact, the U.S. actively engaged in coups when country leaders, democratically elected or not, appeared threatening to American interests.

This reminds me of an American Economic Review article, in which Daniel Berger and his coauthors find that subsequent to CIA-supported coups, American imports to a country increase dramatically (link).