Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours last week, the Dominican Republic's fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold coup, Armed Forces Secretary Pedro Ramon Rodriguez Echavarria, a 37-year-old Trujillo leftover, dismissed the civilian Council of State and proclaimed his own tame junta. In Miami, two exiled Trujillos, brothers of the assassinated dictator, started cashing their cached U.S. dollars into pesos for the trip home. But having once tasted freedom after 31 years of tyranny, the 3,000,000 Dominicans were...
...Joaquin Balaguer has fallen to a civilian-military juntaof ex-Trujillo supporters led by an Air Force general, Rodriguez Echavarria. Echavarria has been openly opposing free elections and the inclusion of liberal, moderate opposition forces in the new government. The ousted Balaguer had been associated with the Trujillo dictatorship, but had promised to step down on the 27th of this month and permit free elections...
Originally imposed as punishment for Trujillo's attempt to assassinate Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. the sanctions were retained after the dictator's own assassination-as a warning to his successors against a new dictatorship. But after months of cliff-hanging crisis, the troubled country seems on the way to its first democratic government in 32 years. Last week a Swiss-style council of state, composed largely of anti-Trujillo business and professional men, was installed to govern the nation until free elections promised for next December. Trujillo's holdover President, Joaquin Balaguer. will...
...Cuban example. If it is too late to heed the advice of Earl E. T. Smith and Arthur Gardner, two former Ambassadors to Cuba who urged that his country help its "good friend" Batista, restitution is being made in Haiti. There, U.S. support of Duvalier props up a hated dictatorship, suppressing five million people by secret-police terror and open violence. Duvalier has ignored the Constitution and dispensed with free elections. Still, one-third of his budget comes from the United States, and his personal army was trained by the Marine Corps in the name of anti-Communism...
...mulo Betancourt. Instead of flatly condemning Cuba or Castro by name, each country would be asked to sign a declaration that would set standards-e.g., a freely elected representative government, total respect for human rights -for membership in the community of American nations. Castro's dictatorship could not and would not qualify, and could thus be ostracized...