Word: personalismo
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Twelve-Hour Day. Balaguer runs the Dominican Republic in the grand old Latin tradition of personalismo, dealing directly and personally with problems, people-and enemies. No sooner had he taken office after last year's elections than he packed General Elias Wessin y Wessin, leader of the army's ultra right, off to New York as the country's alternate delegate to the U.N.; fiery Leftist Juan Bosch, in turn, went into "voluntary" exile in Spain. In the name of "national unity," Balaguer appointed members of Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party as his ministers of industry...
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