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...forgotten, hidden within the sprawling streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico's largest city, lies the small village-like community of San Domingo. During the summer, Ana Maria Garcia Blanco, along with the people of San Domingo, opened a school for the children of the community. She was implementing ideas, combining her Puerto Rican heritage and her work during the last two years as a member of the Student Board of Radcliffe's Education for Action (E4A). With many ages working together in small groups, the Puerto Rican students study the history of their neighborhood; the songs and poetry...
...past three summers Ana Maria has left Harvard and gone back home to teach in San Domingo. During the Spring semester Ana Maria continued her teaching in Cambridge helping with a student initiated study-for-action group on education. Sitting in the Education for Action office in the Radcliffe Gym, Ana, along with eight other undergraduates, examined the problems and possibilities of education in diverse environments: Appalachia, the inner-city Puerto Rico...
...that moment, an army officer with soldiers burst into Santo Domingo's electoral commission headquarters and declared: "This is now over! Get out!" Technicians broadcasting the results were ordered to cut their signals; radios and television sets throughout the country went dead. As word spread of the army's intervention, the country of 5 million was thrown into confusion. Had a coup taken place that would invalidate the election and keep Balaguer in power...
...armed forces immediately denied that there had been a coup, stating in a communiqué that "false rumors are being spread by the enemies of peace." Yet Santo Domingo had the look of a city in the midst of military takeover. Troops patrolled the streets of the capital as apprehensive Dominicans remained safely inside their homes...
Some knowing Dominicans insisted that the invasion of electoral headquarters was an impetuous decision by Santo Domingo Police Chief Neit Nivar Seijas. According to this theory, the top cop, a veteran backer of Balaguer, panicked when he saw the voting returns running against his boss. Balaguer denied this. The army's interference, he explained after nearly two days of silence, was the fault of a mere lieutenant who decided, on his own, to safeguard the ballots after he had heard rumors of a planned coup...