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...Cristobal las Casas, a mountain town in Southern Mexico, supplies the Indians of the surrounding hills with hardware, priests, guns and other essentials. Among the town's small traders and farmers, few are envied as much as Domingo de la Torre Perez, who serves as a paid informer for Harvard University...
...Roosevelt sent two warships to Santo Domingo to dramatize the U.S. interest in settling a tense debt dispute between the island and France. Then T.R. enunciated what came to be called the Roosevelt Corollary, declaring that if a Latin American country defaults on debts or otherwise misbehaves, the U.S. is justified in intervening, "however reluctantly." in order to forestall European intervention...
...Council is drawing the nation's middle-road parties into a common, anti-Communist front. Window-smashing mobs can still raise a ruckus in Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), but now, says one political leader, "each time we have trouble, we have less trouble." The biggest pro-Castro party has lost two-thirds of its original 150,000 members. An anti-Communist national labor federation has won away most of the country's organized workers; anti-Communist student groups have won out in the Dominican Students' Federation...
...agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country's first housing authority, which hopes to help finance 20,000 low-cost homes in the next twelve months. As new capital and new machines-tractors, trucks, sugar-cane grinders-pour into Santo Domingo, unemployment is down 50% to 200,000, wages are up 20%-40%, and workers are eating better...
...followed, still protesting, and the soldiers reacted in familiar Dominican fashion-a burst of machine-gun fire killed one man and wounded three. Next day, in the city of Santiago, another crowd shouting "The assassins must be punished!" was dispersed by bullets, with two wounded. In Santo Domingo, the capital, night raiders revenged themselves by shooting from speeding cars at policemen, killing one and wounding...