Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone to Punta del Este hoping to form a solid front with the twelve other nations* that had voted to hold the conference in the first place, and that were presumably prepared to vote for the same sort of judgment handed down against the Dominican Republic of Dictator Rafael Trujillo: joint diplomatic and economic sanctions. Only one vote was necessary for the two-thirds majority of 14 needed for approval. Six† were opposed to sanctions but apparently agreeable to less drastic action. Uruguay decided to wait...
During the past century, for all their racial differences, Negro Haiti and the Latinized Dominican Republic have remained poor, tyrannized and combative...
Democracy has never been one of Hispaniola's imports. Its local roots are only beginning to grow at the Dominican end of the island, not at all in Haiti...
...hours last week, the Dominican Republic's fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold coup, Armed Forces Secretary Pedro Ramon Rodriguez Echavarria, a 37-year-old Trujillo leftover, dismissed the civilian Council of State and proclaimed his own tame junta. In Miami, two exiled Trujillos, brothers of the assassinated dictator, started cashing their cached U.S. dollars into pesos for the trip home. But having once tasted freedom after 31 years of tyranny, the 3,000,000 Dominicans were...
...Isidro airbase, Hill delivered his blunt message to the general. The U.S. would not recognize his puppet junta. The U.S. would provide no Alliance for Progress help. The U.S. would close down its training program for Dominican military officers. The U.S. would cancel $55 million worth of sugar-quota imports...