It's dangerous to be a left-wing leader in Latin America. The US empire and local right-wing oligarchies are always plotting to overthrow you.
A timeline of recent coups in Latin America
2002, Venezuela -- briefly successful US-backed right-wing coup against democratically elected President Hugo Chávez (quickly overturned by the Venezuelan people)
2004, Haiti -- successful US-backed right-wing coup against democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
2009, Honduras -- successful US-backed right-wing military coup against democratically elected left-wing President Manuel Zelaya
2010, Ecuador -- unsuccessful violent right-wing coup attempt against democratically elected left-wing President Rafael Correa
2012, Paraguay -- successful US-backed right-wing parliamentary coup against democratically elected left-wing President Fernando Lugo
2014, Venezuela -- unsuccessful right-wing coup attempt, with violent "guarimba" blockades, against democratically elected left-wing President Nicolás Maduro
2016, Brazil -- successful US-backed right-wing parliamentary coup against democratically elected left-wing President Dilma Rousseff
2017, Venezuela -- unsuccessful right-wing coup attempt, with violent "guarimba" blockades, against democratically elected left-wing President Nicolás Maduro
2017, Ecuador -- successful internal political coup by President Lenín Moreno, who turned on, imprisoned, and exiled his former allies (and betrayed Julian Assange), forming an alliance with the US and right-wing oligarchy
2018, Nicaragua -- unsuccessful US-backed violent right-wing coup attempt, with violent "tranque" barricades, against democratically elected left-wing President Daniel Ortega
2018, Brazil -- successful right-wing judicial coup with corrupt US-backed judge Sergio Moro imprisoning leading presidential candidate Lula da Silva on false charges, handing the presidency to far-right Jair Bolsonaro (the supreme court later annulled all charges against Lula and he won the 2022 election)
2019, Venezuela -- unsuccessful right-wing coup attempt, with the US appointing unelected opposition politician Juan Guaidó as supposed "interim president"
2019, Bolivia -- temporarily successful violent US-backed right-wing coup against democratically elected left-wing President Evo Morales (overturned by the Bolivia people after 11 months)
2022, Peru -- US-backed right-wing coup against democratically elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo
2023, Colombia -- there are warnings of an ongoing right-wing soft coup attempt against Colombia's first ever, democratically elected left-wing President Gustavo Petro