Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special envoy, President Johnson sent John Bartlow Martin, 49, to plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled...
...Each bullet in a rebel gun has the name of a gringo on it, and if not a gringo then an industrialist." At each turn of the negotiations with Special Envoy Martin, Caamaño had new complaints, new demands, new reasons for not negotiating with Imbert's junta. He imperiously demanded his own "corridor" slicing across the U.S. cordon along Avenida San Juan Bosco-to maintain communication with "our forces in the north." Such a passage would nullify the entire U.S. effort to isolate the fighting; the demand was swiftly rejected. Caamaño excused himself so often...
...supreme decree, Bolivia's seven-month-old military junta last week took the first step to install itself in power indefinitely. "In view of the chaotic political conditions and the inability of political parties to organize themselves for a democratic electoral process," said the decree, the presidential elections scheduled for Oct. 31 were being postponed. No date was set for new elections. Thus, for the moment at least, Air Force General René Barrientos, 45, will continue to rule the troubled Andean nation...
...Barrientos analyzed it, the decision was forced on him by popular will. For months the dashing flyer has wavered back and forth, first, on whether he would be a candidate in the elections, and then, whether he should resign from the junta to run, as the constitution requires. Three weeks ago, in the face of mounting pressure on all sides, Barrientos suddenly announced that he was withdrawing from the elections in the interests of "national harmony and unity." Almost on cue, a series of noisy protest demonstrations erupted among pro-Barrientos peasants in Cochabamba and Sucre, south...
...reversal may not work. If the U.S. insists on too moderate a Guzman coalition, it may find itself with a government neither the rebels nor the junta will support. Again it will be forced to change its line...