Word: echaverria
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
...held out longest was Rodriguez Echaverria. He ordered out hired thugs and government sound trucks to try to woo the mob and break the strike. Then Rodriguez Echaverria stiffly rejected as ''inadmissible" a compromise plan that Puppet Balaguer quietly proposed to Dr. Viriato Fiallo, head of the opposition U.C.N., under which Balaguer would resign in favor of a Swiss-style Council of State...
...Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle. On one side was the middle-roading, anti-Trujillo National Civic Union (U.C.N.), backed by an aroused civilian populace that went on strike to support it. On the other was Trujillo's powerful armed forces, under General Pedro Rodriguez Echaverria...
...quit, his legal successor is supposed to be the armed forces secretary. They had thought of that: Balaguer need only name Fiallo to that post, resign, and permit Fiallo to succeed him. Fiallo would then reappoint as armed forces chief the man who now occupies the job: General Rodriguez Echaverria, whose support of Balaguer gave him the muscle to oust the Trujillos. Balaguer, still backed by Rodriguez Echaverria, refused. "We have had enough!" exploded Fiallo, and out over Santo Domingo's Radio Tropical went a U.C.N. call for a general strike...
...week's end, President Balaguer, after a palace conference with Armed Forces Secretary Rodriguez Echaverria, announced his own "conciliation" plan-which sounded more like an ultimatum: Balaguer would head up a seven-member junta that would include Rodriguez Echaverria and grant a virtual autonomy to the military, e.g., no military man would be punished for actions committed under Trujillo. Presumably this was his asking price. The opposition U.C.N. could only resume its strike in the streets, hopeful that the rioting would not get out of hand. Looking on, the U.S. was concerned that too sudden an overturn of armed...