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Peter H. Darrow '64 is a senior concentrating in American History. He spent the past summer in Santo Domingo working for C.I.D.E.S., a privately financed agency providing technical advice and assistance to the Bosch administration...
...December 20, 1962, the Dominican Republic held the first free election in its violent history. Juan Bosch emerged from the cluster of candidates with 60 per cent of the vote, and the lawyers, judges, and journalists, invited through the O.A.S. as observers, called the election "most encouraging for those who desire the strengthening of representative democracy...
...Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch had this expreience. A social reformer working within a constitutional framework, Bosch suddenly found himself caught between two extremes: those who insisted that the Dominican revolution ended with the assassination of Trujillo, and those who cried that revolution would begin only with widespread land reform...
After the elections the military and businessmen, who had controlled the interim government, seemed willing to give Bosch a chance. In the next seven months, however, they became increasingly convinced that Bosch was acting against their interests...
Most important, Bosch proposed legislation to confiscate the property of ex-Trujillo scpporters. Under the new plan, old Trujillo landlords would have been forbidden to plead their cases in court. Although Bosch advisors privately considered the new laws unconstitutional, practical politics offered no alternative: the land holding elite controlled the courts and the courts were stalling land reform. Property owners immediately envisioned a rash of confiscations...