U.S. has a history of preventing democracy in Central America, not promoting it. Over 100 years ago, the U.S. took advantage of the Cuban revolution against colonial Spain and intervened on behalf of the revolutionaries only to betray an initial promise not to “exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island,” and instead President McKinley announced that the U.S. would rule Cuba under “the law of belligerent right over conquered territory.” Fast forward through the state terror towards Cuba during the Cold War to present day. Decades of sanctions and non-engagement has almost certainly helped keep the undemocratic Castro regime in power.

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/04/16/obama-lie-of-favoring-democr...

It's a big theatre we are living in, but the plot is starting to repeat itself.