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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...
Most of the OAS members were swayed not by treaty but by Trujillo's long and bloody record. "The Rio treaty is not a piece of paper at the service of dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba...
Backed by Brazil, Chile and Peru, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS John Dreier proposed a conference of the 21 foreign ministers to examine the "grave situation" in the Caribbean "on a broad front." Dreier recalled that in three months the OAS had met twice before to study threats to peace...
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...