Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home of onetime Rebel Adviser Hector Aristy, guards inside opened fire and kept it up for half an hour. When the smoke cleared, two guards were dead. Once inside, police found a large arms cache, but Aristy had apparently fled. At week's end police and Dominican troops seemed to have things under control...
...change. Though there has been no formal declaration of war anywhere since World War II, the Pentagon counts 164 "internationally significant outbreaks of violence" in the past eight years alone. The U.S. has had to rush troops to Thailand and Lebanon to relieve external pressures, to Panama and the Dominican Republic to counter insurrection from within. It has confronted mortal challenge in Cuba and Berlin. Where the choice once seemed to be between peace and universal conflagration, the world is now experiencing a series of bloodletting skirmishes instead...
...policy toward the Republic has been based largely on fear and stupidity. The few exceptions offer little hope for the future. President Kennedy gave the first Bosch government great financial and moral support; but many Dominicans who ought to know insist that the CIA and the American military attaches were simultaneously encouraging Dominican generals to upset the Bosch government. The CIA and the attaches easily outdid the American president in this tussle, and there was indeed a coup...
Some American diplomats still favor a policy of reform and democratization. It was, for example, Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, who convinced Bosch to run once more for the presidency. But the American military continues to bolster all those Dominican interests which would make a Bosch victory hollow. And the State Department exerts little effort to disguise its support for Dr. Balaguer, the conservative candidate in this election...
Polite critics of the State Department say that the U.S. too often prefers "order to reform" in Latin America. This is too generous. In the Dominican Republic at least, the U.S. has been, and continues to be, willing to foresake everything even order, to avoid reform. A Balaguer victory would mean chaos. The April revolution would recommence in Santo Domingo, and perhaps elsewhere. The democratic parties--the PRD and the PRSC--would be thrown into turmoil by an agony of conscience. What has all this to do with "order...