Word: godoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside his party, Balaguer has another potential rival in Career Diplomat Hector Garcia-Godoy, now Ambassador to the U.S., who as provisional President helped guide the Dominican Republic back to peace after the 1965 civil war. He also faces a rightist challenge by former General Elias Wessin y Wessin, a major instigator of the coup that backfired into war and brought U.S. intervention. Wessin recently returned from three years in exile to lead an ultraconservative party...
...sovereign, King Charles IV, to immortalize the royal family. The shimmering panorama that Goya created has been called his supreme tour de force. With devastating candor, he laid bare the indolence of the King, the shallow depravity of Queen Maria Luisa (whose intrigues on behalf of her lover Godoy had reduced the Bourbon court to its final debility), and the self-centered vacuity of their relations. In imitation of Velasquez' 1656 portrayal of the royal maids of honor, Las Meninas, Goya painted himself into the picture as a prim, critical observer at his easel on the left...
...meeting, held in the small stucco home of a Bosch supporter outside Santo Domingo, was set up by Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, who has long insisted on the need to "broaden the middle and eliminate the sharp differences between the right and left." Both Bosch and Balaguer seemed intent on doing that...
...turbulent scene in June 1965, and over the months nursed, cursed, cajoled and wheedled the two rival factions to a truce and, finally, to elections this month. In the process, he won the respect and trust of both sides. "He doesn't see labels," says one Garcia-Godoy aide. "He sees people." Bunker restored U.S. prestige in the Dominican Republic-and throughout Latin America-and made it possible for the U.S. to withdraw gracefully from what a year ago struck many as one of the worst blunders in recent American foreign policy...
...June 1 election neared, provisional President Héctor García-Godoy could afford a sigh of satisfaction. "I feel sure," he said, "that the next President will have some basis for order and stability." Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Pérez y Pérez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will." Dominicans, facing their first free elections since 1962, could only hope that the mood would last...