Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-income groups, and ending the tax evasion which costs Latin American governments billions of dollars every year." Latin American nations themselves are hesitantly beginning to recognize the problem. In the first hemisphere meeting of its kind, 66 tax experts from every nation (except Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic) gathered in Buenos Aires last week to study ways of collecting the hidden harvest...
...General Assembly hears many violent denunciations and endless bland defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his leader's crimes. "The barrier of silence has been lifted, said Balaguer. "After the death of the man who personified the Dominican state for 30 years, a new government has gradually been modeling its institutions according to the principles of representative democracy...
Hope for Coalition. The U.S. is counting heavily on Balaguer, and would like to see the sanctions lifted to shore up the economy. But Balaguer has critical problems that must be solved before he can convince the OAS that the Dominican Republic is a stable country proceeding toward democracy. He would like to form a coalition government that would include some elements of the old Trujillo regime along with the more moderate of the opposition groups...
...Cruising through Caracas in June 1960, Betancourt barely escaped his old enemy Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic; Trujillo's agents parked a car loaded with high explosives along the route, triggered it by a microwave transmitter. The blast killed Betancourt's aide-de-camp, his chauffeur and a bystander and severely burned Betancourt himself-to the extent that his hands, 16 months later, are still horribly scarred and tender...
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