Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concensus of political opinion, and whose economy is relatively egalitarian (except for blatant enclaves), such politics are all too easily dismissed as the result of Latin temperament. But if the United States is to maintain that the democratic process can wipe out social and economic inequalities, the Caribbean coup must be closely considered...
...fact, this tension is all too often resolved by the single permanent source of power in Latin America: the military. And the military, for its part, feels as threatened by economic equality as do the land owners. Consequently, the characteristic response to democratic reform is a military coup followed by a civilian junta...
...mind their own business. The military is apolitical and should take no stand either for or against the government, he explained. Such tactlessness was hardly likely to encourage the military to remain apolitical. From July on, the Dominican "elitist alliance" was only concerned with the timing of the coup and with the hope of quick American recognition...
...join the previous resident, Emperor Bao Dai, on the Riviera, and there seems to be no easy way of getting them to go. No elections they conduct would turn them out of office. Free elections will have to wait at least removal of the Ngos. However, after the attempted coups in 1960 and 1962, which the U.S. failed to support, and the wild vacillation of Americans policy on a coup in recent weeks, South Vietnamese military men are apparently not anxious to risk another...
...excuses offered to the United States by the juntas which seized power in these two countries were uncommonly thin, even by diplomatic standards. In Honduras, a U.S.-trained pilot who headed the coup claimed to replace a Communist - infiltrated government. In the Dominican Republic, army officers who first protected and then assassinated former dictator Rafael Trujillo complained of inefficiency and high unemployment when they threw democratically elected Juan Bosch out. They added that President Bosch's regime had been riddled with Castro sympathizers...