Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...democratic governments in Latin America have been overthrown by military revolts during the past eighteen months. Constitutional regimes in the Dominican Republic and Honduras fell within a week of each other in September...
...Salvador (January 1961), Argentina (March 1962), Peru (July 1962), Guatemala (March 1963), Ecuador (July 1963), Dominican Republic (September 1963) and Honduras...
...Need of a Policy. In anger and frustration, 22 Senators, 21 of them Democrats, fired off a telegram to the President asking him to make an example of the Dominican military by recalling all U.S. diplomatic, military-and foreign-aid personnel. After a lengthy series of meetings, Secretary of State Dean Rusk recalled all U.S. economic and military-aid personnel from both the Dominican Republic and Honduras...
Jose Figueres, visiting professor of Government, who directs the seminars, explained that the problem of the military has been worse in the Dominican Republic than elsewhere in the hemisphere. "The Trujillo armed forces were personal butchers. They helped lapse the Dominican Republic into a state of mental sickness," Figueres said...
...There was an undisciplined reaction to the ending of a repressive regime," explained Abraham F. Lowenthal '61, a student in the Graduate School of Public Administration, who was in the Dominican Republic in early September...