Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There seems to at least have been a chance that the Dominicans could have finished this off for themselves. There is an indication that Bosch's forces were winning at the time that the United States decided to intervene... We have been given different reasons for American intervention, from protection of property to fear of Communist takeover. How can the President expects the students to support his policy when all the reasons for which he followed it are not made clear, are "classified...
Skidmore, a specialist in the history of Latin America, said yesterday that he hoped to ask Bundy "why the government has apparently shifted its support away from the Bosch-type, liberal government in Latin America." He said he was critical of American policy in the Dominican Republic although "I would not grant to be identified with the view that he has been a disaster--the final results are still...
...democracy. At the news of Imbert's agreement, Caamaño muttered: "It's a fairy tale." He flatly refused to participate in new elections, still demanded a return to the 1963 constitution-which means that Caamaño would serve out the remaining two years of Bosch's term. Ignored was the technicality that the 1963 constitution forbids military officers from holding office. "First," cried Caamaño, "the revolution's goal must be fulfilled. After that we can talk about elections." To some Americans this sounded like a rerun of Fidel Castro...
...junta as candidates, agreed that all previously recognized political parties could enter candidates. This meant that Joaquin Balaguer, 57, who served as President before and after the death of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, could run. as well as Antonio Guzman, the Minister of Agriculture under deposed President Juan Bosch-and even Bosch himself, if he ever chooses to leave his Puerto Rican exile...
...Walter Lippmann, who had supported the U.S. intervention, hoped for the success of what he called the "legitimatist party-that of the Constitutionalists." But the fact is that Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, boss of the so-called Constitutionalists, had helped overthrow the constitutional President, Juan Bosch, in 1963. And the Bosch constitution that Caamaño was supposedly supporting forbids any military man -Caamaño, for example-to hold office...