Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bosch, defeated by these forces once before, is far from enthusiastic about winning today: "I want not to be President... I run for there is no one else... What does it mean to be President? Nothing. The President has no guns...
...Again a Bosch epigram cuts to the essence of the matter: "I have long known the Dominican Republic could not have democracy without the United States; now I see we cannot have democracy with the United States." For democracy is more than a technically free election. It is a way of running a society. Until the Republic can build a democratic society, it cannot enjoy a genuinely democratic government. And there will be no democratic society until the U.S. ceases supporting and financing all the anti-democratic interest groups in that society...
...policy toward the Republic has been based largely on fear and stupidity. The few exceptions offer little hope for the future. President Kennedy gave the first Bosch government great financial and moral support; but many Dominicans who ought to know insist that the CIA and the American military attaches were simultaneously encouraging Dominican generals to upset the Bosch government. The CIA and the attaches easily outdid the American president in this tussle, and there was indeed a coup...
Some American diplomats still favor a policy of reform and democratization. It was, for example, Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, who convinced Bosch to run once more for the presidency. But the American military continues to bolster all those Dominican interests which would make a Bosch victory hollow. And the State Department exerts little effort to disguise its support for Dr. Balaguer, the conservative candidate in this election...
...only way out, if one remains, is a Bosch victory. He is irrascible and discouraged. His administration no doubt would be untidy and uncertain. He would confront almost impossible odds. But, with tactful and intelligently directed U.S. help, the poet-president might led his nation out of its decades-long political nightmare. That the U.S. is unlikely to give such aid, or even to remain neutral toward Bosch, reveals once again the intellectual poverty and political obtuseness of American foreign policy in Latin America...