Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military rulers of the Dominican Republic have already begun to show weakness and fear; the United States has only commenced the powerful moves it can take to undercut the regime's support. It seems possible that a coordinated OAS effort to reinstate the Dominican Republic's elected regime might well succeed...
...excuses offered to the United States by the juntas which seized power in these two countries were uncommonly thin, even by diplomatic standards. In Honduras, a U.S.-trained pilot who headed the coup claimed to replace a Communist - infiltrated government. In the Dominican Republic, army officers who first protected and then assassinated former dictator Rafael Trujillo complained of inefficiency and high unemployment when they threw democratically elected Juan Bosch out. They added that President Bosch's regime had been riddled with Castro sympathizers...
...bids for U.S. aid. But recognizing the cynicism of the military juntas is only a precondition to doing something about them. Although President Kennedy deplored the army takeovers at his press conference Wednesday, he did not say whether the United States had determined to help the people of the Dominican Republic bring these unpopular rulers down...
Latin American leaders know how much money, aid, and hope President Kennedy invested in the democratic socialist government of the Dominican Republic. Now that military forces have unseated the Bosch government, these leaders are waiting to see how much further Kennedy's commitment to Latin American democracy will go. If the withdrawal of aid and recognition from the new junta was purely ritualistic, then Latin American military chiefs will expect the United States to tolerate future military coups. If U.S. opposition to the rightists with whom it has been traditionally associated was genuine, then social democratic politicians will want...
...democracy in Santo Domingo is the easy step. Any attempt to establish constitutional government and non-Soviet socialist democracy in Latin America can only begin there. As long as the military has the de facto veto power over reform programs that it exercised this month in the Dominican Republic, democracy in Latin America will be simply an army puppet-show. Real democracy must bring what most of the people in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the hemisphere now see as their right--thorough, far-reaching social reform...