Word: echavarria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...months Rodriguez Echavarria, a onetime jet pilot, had seemed the very model of a penitent military man. He even became something of a hero for helping break up an attempted comeback by the dead dictator's brothers last November. But the popularity soon waned, and before long Dominicans were demanding his resignation along with that of Puppet President Joaquin Balaguer, who had agreed to step down on or before Feb. 27. The general had other ideas...
...caretaker government of Joaquin Balaguer has fallen to a civilian-military juntaof ex-Trujillo supporters led by an Air Force general, Rodriguez Echavarria. Echavarria has been openly opposing free elections and the inclusion of liberal, moderate opposition forces in the new government. The ousted Balaguer had been associated with the Trujillo dictatorship, but had promised to step down on the 27th of this month and permit free elections...
Unlikely Go-Betweens. Thus ended an explosive, six-week crisis verging often near the flash point of civil war. Last month Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria-with an assist from Washington, which stationed warships and marines off the Dominican coast-became heroes for a day by blocking a comeback coup by two Trujillo brothers. But their authoritarian rule still did not meet the nation's hankering for freedom. The opposition National Civic Union, a moderate group, demanded that Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria themselves abandon power. At first the two Trujillo holdovers refused. It remained for two unlikely go-betweens...
Under the compromise, which is slated to be ratified by Congress this week. Balaguer will appoint a seven-man Council of State over which he will preside, at least in the beginning-and with the right to retain Rodriguez Echavarria as armed forces chief. All six other Council member-designates are either independents or men who turned against Trujillo. Amiama Tió, a small businessman, and Imbert, a cement plant manager who drove the assassination car, will each be represented...