Word: echaverria
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...Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate bid to reéssert the bloody dictatorship. It took a triple play to defeat it-by Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer, helped by a 37-year-old Dominican air force general named Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria, and by the U.S. Navy, which coolly provided just the touch of old-fashioned "gunboat diplomacy" to enable the Dominicans themselves to end the Trujillo...
...airbase near the inland Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Commanding General Rodriguez ordered the arrest of every Trujillo agent in the city whom the uncles were apt to count on for their bloodbath. His younger brother, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff Pedro Santiago Rodriguez Echaverria, persuaded 20 pilots at San Isidro, the main airbase in Ciudad Trujillo, to fly to Santiago...
Powerful Dissent. At week's end, President Balaguer found himself in shaky control. He rewarded the two air force men by putting them in control of the armed forces-Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria as Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, Brother Pedro Santiago as air force chief of staff. Balaguer worked to form a transitional coalition government. In this he was backed by the moderately leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party of longtime anti-Trujillo Exile Juan Bosch, by Fiallo's middle-of-the-road National Civic Union, and by some elements of the leftist 14th...