Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December 20, 1962, the Dominican Republic held the first free election in its violent history. Juan Bosch emerged from the cluster of candidates with 60 per cent of the vote, and the lawyers, judges, and journalists, invited through the O.A.S. as observers, called the election "most encouraging for those who desire the strengthening of representative democracy...
...seven months after the formal and ceremonious inauguration, the Dominican armed forces--proclaiming themselves the guardians of civil liberties and the democratic process--arrested and exiled their president and established a civilian triumvirate composed of "more suitable...
...Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch had this expreience. A social reformer working within a constitutional framework, Bosch suddenly found himself caught between two extremes: those who insisted that the Dominican revolution ended with the assassination of Trujillo, and those who cried that revolution would begin only with widespread land reform...
...Dominican elite had assassinated Trujillo in an effort to seize for themselves the enormous economic power he retained for his personal pleasures. But releasing economic control from the Trujillo dictatorship was in no way an effort to redistribute wealth. Social responsibility among the elite is non-existent...
Washington will not only need to use its influence through the OAS to return democracy to the Dominican Republic. It must also exert continued and lasting pressure on the army to make constitutionalism stick. If the United States supplemented this with a program of aid and export price supports far more comprehensive than any it has yet offered, a new government in Santo Domingo might find the prosperity and stability that alone can insure democracy will stay there...