Have you seen the U.S. economic plan to starve Ghana by ignoring President Nkrumah's requests in order to make him very unpopular in the buildup to the 1966 CIA-backed coup that removed him? See also the celebratory reaction of the US State Dept/CIA upon the Nkrumah's overthrow.

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