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The dying Congress was not only rough on the Democrats, it also deliberately defied President Eisenhower. After the 21 nation Organization of American States condemned Dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic for aggression and called for sanctions against it (TIME, Aug. 29), Ike needed authorization to cut imports of Dominican...
Four days after 21 Latin American nations, gathered in Costa Rica, voted to break diplomatic relations with Trujillo and impose economic sanctions against the Dominican dictatorship, the U.S. moved to comply. The OAS agreed on an embargo on arms sales to Trujillo; the U.S., which had long been embargoing the...
Herter huddled with the U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Whiting Willauer, who recalled an old suggestion by Costa Rican ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres for a U.N. "mandate" over the Dominican Republic. Herter seized on the idea, hurriedly turned it into his proposal for an OAS democratizing committee, and presented...
Arcaya in demanding vengeance in the form of tough sanctions. Though he too supported punishment, U.S. Delegate Christian Herter looked ahead to suggest a cure for ending the Trujillo dictatorship altogether: a special committee of the OAS that would oversee a free election to establish democracy in the Dominican Republic...
For 16 hours a day, between Cuban cha cha chas and American pop tunes, the station lambastes the U.S. It also courts Fidel Castro, an ally in mutual hatred of the U.S. Radio Caribe shrugs off last year's Cuba-based Dominican invasion as "the result of errors in...