Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategic reasons are confused, yet none of them point to doing what Johnson did. He was informed by CIA reports that 58 influential revolutionaries were Communists. He knew that several moderate leaders had become discouraged with the growing strength of the Communists, and had abandoned the effort to restore Bosch...
...Communist lieutenants do not necessarily determine the fate of an uprising comprising tens of thousands of non-Communist Bosch supporters. Kennedy's experience with CIA reports before the Bay of Pigs should have suggested to Johnson that the CIA is occasionally inaccurate. Judging from New York Times reports, there was a good chance that the non-Communist pro-Bosch forces would have been able to win. Yet Johnson was in no mood to wager on the Dominican Republic becoming another Cuba. That is why he intervened...
Even if one accepts the decision to intervene, wise short-range strategy still did not dictate Johnson's course. At the beginning of the revolt, the Communists were clearly distinguishable from the pro-Bosch rebels. The State Department itself admitted this when it announced that, because of the discouragement of Bosch supporters with the strength of the Communists, the U.S. had decided to intervene. But intervene in favor of whom? For the Bosch supporters who wanted constitutional reform but hated the Communists enough to denounce their progress to the U.S.? Or for Wessin y Wessin whom even the "purest...
...decision was for Wessin y Wessin because, according to the New York Times, Administration officials "mistrusted Bosch's judgment on the ground that he was 'color blind' toward 'reds' in his seven months in office in 1963." The U.S. government seems incapable of understanding that social reform, not Communism, is the central concern of Latin Americans...
...United States manages, by means of the 14,000 man force it is building up, to shoulder the army junta into power, the Communists will be playing from an understandably stronger position at the polls or in the next (and practically inevitable) revolution. Next time there may be no Bosch standing between the junta and the Communists...