Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world, or at least what a Western journal says is going on in the world. Though there is no official ban on us in Cuba, distributors are afraid to handle TIME there for fear of trouble. In the past year, nine issues of TIME have been confiscated in the Dominican Republic (about as many under Ramfis Trujillo as under his assassinated father). We are currently banned in Spain and Portugal and their colonies, and in Indonesia too. We have run into trouble in the past year in Laos, Iran, and Jordan for stories that displeased the censors. In Ghana...
Last week, on the ancient island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic at one end was still trying to recover from Trujillo, and went through two seizures of power in 48 hours. At the other end, in Haiti, the U.S. is trying to moderate one of the toughest dictatorships in Latin America...
...United States is already deeply involved in the Dominican crisis, and should have few qualms about intervening. It no longer has a choice whether to use its power--which in this case is economic--it has only the choice of how to use its power. Its weapon is non-recognition...
Under the Sugar Act, the Kennedy Administration has the right to give sugar allotments that would once have gone to Cuba to other sugar growing nations. Balaguer's government, among others, had been promised an increase in the Dominican Republic's sugar quota amounting to $45 million. In its present state, the country needs the money badly...
...United States must act now. The Dominican Republic is one of the few dictatorships where there are able opposition leaders capable of giving the country moderate rule. And there is still unrest enough for them to stir up popular demonstrations and even a general strike against the government. If the gangsters of the Trujillo era have time to consolidate their power, it will be too late...