Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poured thousands upon thousands of airborne units and Marines into a country where revolution had broken out against a military dictatorship and in favor of restoring the constitutional non-Communist government of Juan Bosch. After four days of hesitation, the U.S. deliberately sided with a group of generals who had distinguished themselves by their virulent insistence that the whole revolution was Communist-inspired...
...both moral and strategic reasons. The moral reason is that no nation should intervene thus in the internal affairs of another. Specifically, the United States--which some of us still like to think of as a liberal power--should not intervene in a revolution which seeks to replace dictatorship with a constitutionally-elected president whom the U.S. once enthusiastically supported...
Ironically, Uncle Sam's intervention in favor of the right-wing military may do more for the Communists than he could have done by sitting on his thumbs. Dominicans remember that the last time the gunboats came to their island, Trujillo emerged from the ensuing struggle. His dictatorship lasted 32 years. Many Dominican democrats fear a return to U.S. supported Trujilloism in the person of Wessin y Wessin. They are being forced to make common cause with the Communists in the fight for non-military government...
There are some dubious democracies that are evolving toward more freedom; unlike being pregnant, it is possible to be a little bit democratic. Perhaps the textbook example of how a benign dictatorship can encourage democracy is Ayub Khan, who remains a military strongman but in seven years has moved Pakistan to the point where he himself ran scared for President in this year's election-and against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social...
...Scottish immigrant, Reid was a Santo Domingo auto dealer with no political following-which may explain why he got the job. Once in office, he decided that the time had come "to act, not talk," if anyone was going to save the country from economic ruin and another dictatorship. To get room to operate, he accepted resignations from the other members of the triumvirate, filled one vacancy with a friend, left the other unfilled. To keep any one general from assuming too much power for too long, he set up a rotating system for the top commands. Announced Reid...