Word: hispaniola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size, the island of Hispaniola-where Christopher Columbus landed in 1492-can match its violent past and present with just about any place, including Cuba, the island next door. One end of the island of Hispaniola just got rid of the bloody 31-year dictatorship of the Trujillos in 1961. The other end is subjected to the increasingly whimsical violence of Haiti's Dictator François Duvalier...
Citizens of the Dominican Republic do not have much practice in free elections-the last one was in 1924, under the watchful eye of occupying U.S. Marines. Then came the era of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. and for 31 years the small Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti was the demesne of the dictator, his relatives and his cronies. Last week, 19 months after Trujillo's assassination, Dominicans got another try at democracy. In calm and free elections, more than 1,000,000 voters went quietly to the polls to choose a constitutional president to lead...
Last week, on the ancient island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic at one end was still trying to recover from Trujillo, and went through two seizures of power in 48 hours. At the other end, in Haiti, the U.S. is trying to moderate one of the toughest dictatorships in Latin America...
Democracy has never been one of Hispaniola's imports. Its local roots are only beginning to grow at the Dominican end of the island, not at all in Haiti...
...Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nations-Haiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti's President François Duvalier, a onetime physician, has done little to improve the lot of a country that depends on a $5,000,000 annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his neighbor, Dictator...