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Resplendent in a freshly pressed uniform, a stocky, scar-faced man wearing brigadier general's rank marched stiffly through the ruined doorway of the Dominican Republic's Congressional Assembly Hall. He was a Dominican national hero, Antonio Imbert Barreras, 44, one of the two surviving assassins of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Honored with a general's commission, he had been living quietly in the background. Now he had come as the anti-Communist head of a new five-man loyalist junta, replacing the three soldiers installed by Brigadier General Wessin y Wessin a fortnight ago, hoping...
...Citizens," said Imbert, after taking the oath of office, "our capital is in ruins. Our national life is in pieces. Dominicans of all sectors have come forth in order that we can form a government of national reconstruction. We do not desire anything other than the salvation of our fatherland." Imbert's junta was composed of a lawyer, an engineer, an air force colonel from Wessin y Wessin's government; in a gesture to the rebels who had started the revolt in the name of deposed President Juan Bosch, he included a pro-Bosch editor...
...Imbert appealed to the rebels holed up in downtown Santo Domingo to surrender their weapons, guaranteed their safe-conduct "without reservations." He called for peace, unity, bound himself "to cooperate totally" with the Organization of American States, and, with the U.S., struggle to bring at least a semblance of sanity to his battered, forsaken land. He claimed he had control of all 25 Dominican provinces and 90% of the capital district. He asked all public employees to return to work, promised that his government would start paying salaries promptly...
Among the most powerful of the men who brought him down were two old hands at conspiracy: General Antonio Imbert Barreras, 42, and General Luis Amiama Tio, 49, sole survivors of the plotters who killed Dictator Trujillo. Under Bosch, Imbert controlled the police. He made no secret that he put more faith in bullets than ballots. "This coun try doesn't need elections," he once said. "One party wins. The others won't respect it. There'll be hell...
...predawn meeting in the palace, the military chiefs arrested Bosch. They abolished the constitution, dissolved Congress, outlawed Communists and closed the schools. Out over the radio went a manifesto: "We have decided to intervene to put order to this chaos and to halt the deteriora tion to revolutionary Communism." Imbert then sent his police to round up all "subversives." By week's end some 500 people were in jail...