Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours last week, the Dominican Republic's fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold coup, Armed Forces Secretary Pedro Ramon Rodriguez Echavarria, a 37-year-old Trujillo leftover, dismissed the civilian Council of State and proclaimed his own tame junta. In Miami, two exiled Trujillos, brothers of the assassinated dictator, started cashing their cached U.S. dollars into pesos for the trip home. But having once tasted freedom after 31 years of tyranny, the 3,000,000 Dominicans were...
From the balcony, loudspeakers blared out anti-Balaguer and anti-Rodriguez slogans as four light tanks drew up before the building. Soldiers climbed a ladder to cut off the loudspeakers. A car drove up, and Rafael Bonnelly, the mild-looking lawyer and U.C.N. leader who was scheduled to succeed Balaguer as President, stepped out to protest. "Without warning," says a witness, "gunners on top of the tanks opened fire point-blank at the people." Soldiers pointed their guns at Bonnelly and shouted to their commanding officer to "get out of the way so we can shoot!" Bonnelly's aides...
...palace, Council Chief Rafael Bonnelly formally reconvened the Council and announced: "I am the President of the Republic and of the Council of State." He accepted the resignation of Balaguer (who had prudently taken asylum in the residence of the papal nuncio), and then came the cheers, the backslaps and embraces. The only foreign diplomat invited to the celebration: able young (40) Charge Hill, representing...
...delegation to the hemispheric foreign ministers' meeting is his puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticós, a traveler to Moscow who ran for local office on the Communist ticket as far back as 1948. At his elbow as the delegation's "adviser" is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, editor of Cuba's Communist daily...
...week a Swiss-style council of state, composed largely of anti-Trujillo business and professional men, was installed to govern the nation until free elections promised for next December. Trujillo's holdover President, Joaquin Balaguer. will turn over chief-executive duties to the council's designated president, Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly, 57, a lawyer who. like almost everyone else of prominence in the Dominican Republic, served Trujillo at one time, but broke with him and helped organize the powerful opposition National Civic Union. One of the council's first actions: to fire Trujillo's diplomat-playboy...