Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immigration rules was the bright, particular friend of Spain's Franco; but weren't Spanish Falangists excluded by the act's language? Obviously they were, and presumably if any turned up they could be hustled off to Ellis Island. And what of followers of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Trujillo, or of any of the other Latin American Good Neighbors who had lived under military juntas and strong-man machines during the recent past...
...purpose soon emerged sharp and clear: it was to forge a weapon to fight press censorship in the Western Hemisphere, notably in Latin America. In a committee report that pulled no punches, the countries where censorship exists and the degree of press repression were ticked off. Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and 13 other countries were all criticized for current or recent attempts to censor the press. But the chief and most persistent offender named by the editors was Argentina...
...anti-Communist law (TIME, Oct. 2) with hemisphere policy kept the State Department in a swirl last week. One provision of the law requires State to refuse visas to "totalitarians." Did that mean supporters of the strong-arm regimes which run such good neighbors as Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Peru or Venezuela...
...exiles' complaint was based chiefly on the story of a 21-year-old passenger who survived the wreck, escaped and talked with a member of the Ramirez family before he died in a hospital. The youth declared that Ramirez' truck had been stopped by Dominican soldiers at a road junction south of Ciudad Trujillo, on the night of June 1. When Ramirez jumped out, he was attacked with clubs, the witness said, but grabbed one away from a soldier and knocked down three men before he was riddled with bullets. Then soldiers took the seven passengers...
Porfirio Ramirez, inactive in politics himself, was the brother of Caribbean Legion General Miguel Angel Ramirez, onetime Dominican diplomat and leader of two abortive expeditions to invade the Dominican Republic. Last spring, after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo's knuckles were rapped by the Organization of American States in a report on Caribbean plotting (TIME, March 27), the dictator invited all exiles to come home. Ramirez refused, and the exile committee said that Trujillo took his revenge on Porfirio Ramirez...