Under Reagan, the US was a great enemy of democracy. Its main project was the destruction, by violence, of the democratic government of Nicaragua, the first government ever to hold elections in Nicaragua in which the opposition might be allowed to win. This was the government that the US targeted for destruction, with a US-led army made up mostly of the remains of the overthrown US-backed dictator's terror police.
The US also supported and often helped to lead dictatorships in
Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. These dictatorships
had some of the world's worst records for torture, mass killing, and "disappearances."
The Reagan administration was a very strong advocate of these types of
activities, helped carry out these activities, often leading them, and
justified them when they were criticized. It blocked proposals for democratic
solutions. Examples are US-funded state domestic terror and mass bloodbaths in
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and South Korea, US-funded state international terror and mass killing in
East Timor, Palestine, Mozambique, Angola, and Lebanon,
US-led nonstate mass slaughter and terror in Nicaragua, and US-led small-scale nonstate terror in Lebanon.
