Word: oases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Dominican dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo poses an unhappy dilemma for the U.S. and the responsible democracies of Latin America. Nobody wants to support Trujillo's tyranny-but inter-American treaties promise him joint aid in the event of outside aggression. Everybody would like to see the Dominican...
By the books, the Dominicans could hope for some assistance. The invasions crushed last month by Trujillo came from Cuba, and Dominican Ambassador to the OAS Virgilio Díaz Ordóñez charged that a new, 3,000-man force was training in Cuba, backed by 25 Venezuelan...
Peacemakers. At his press conference last week. President Eisenhower said that "there is no sense closing our eyes to the situations in Central America and the Caribbean; but we do look primarily to the OAS to take the initiative, otherwise we again could be called dollar imperialists or something else...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation...
Only real winner: Dominican Republican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has a firm precedent for appealing to the OAS if and when Cuban rebels try to help overthrow him.