Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessman puts it another way. "This place is in no sense the old-style jack-booted dictatorship. I've worked in Venezuela during the time of Perez Jimenez, in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, in Argentina under Peron. There is no atmosphere of tension and fear. The idea is order, to build something." That is how Stroessner sees himself-as Paraguay's builder. His term expires in 1968, and constitutionally he is barred from running again. But in Stroessner's Paraguay, the builder can always reconstruct a constitution...
...areas as Guatemala and Paraguay. About 35% of its loans are for agricultural projects, which often get a cool reception from international bankers. Last year the Mexican government received $30.5 million to reclaim and settle 130,000 desolate acres in the southeastern state of Tabasco, while Venezuela and the Dominican Republic got $6,000,000 apiece to build up cattle herds...
Convinced that President Juan Bosch was veering too far left, Dominican Republic military leaders turned him out last September. In his place, they set up what they considered a reliably docile civilian triumvirate too weak to do any harm-or any good. But when the junta went through its inevitable first shake-up last December, out went one of its members and in stepped Donald Reid Cabral, 40, a Santo Domingo auto dealer and the frail (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.) but strong-willed son of a Scots banker. Since then, Reid has clearly become more equal than...
...become a full-fledged President. Under Reid, Castroite terrorism has petered out, food prices are lower, business confidence is returning. Last week the new U.S. ambassador, William Tapley Bennett, brought good news: renewal of a suspended $885,000 aid commitment and a $4,000,000 highway loan. The Dominican Republic is certainly not the showcase democracy that the U.S. once hoped for under Bosch, but at least a forward struggle has at last begun in the melancholy, dictator-tortured republic...
...regime. The 5,000-man Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's plain-clothes bully boys, shake down merchants and terrorize peasants, while his militiamen engage in macabre voodoo orgies, playing on the belief of the superstitious population that Papa Doc has occult powers. Haitian exiles, arriving in the Dominican Republic at the other end of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, say that the rites have included sewing up newborn babies inside sacrificial bulls. At the end of Duvalier's constitutional term last year, when he skipped elections and simply had himself inaugurated again, the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations...