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...York Times: "Little awareness has been shown by the U.S. that the Dominican people-not just a handful of Communists-were fighting and dying for social justice and constitutionalism." Even Walter Lippmann, who had supported the U.S. intervention, hoped for the success of what he called the "legitimatist party-that of the Constitutionalists." But the fact is that Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, boss of the so-called Constitutionalists, had helped overthrow the constitutional President, Juan Bosch, in 1963. And the Bosch constitution that Caamaño was supposedly supporting forbids any military man -Caama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Taking Sides in Santo Domingo | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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