Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brutal; in 15 short years under leaders like Simón Bolivar, José de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, the American colonies threw off Spanish dominance and established their independence. Unlike Britain, Spain found no new worlds to conquer. The final humiliating ejection from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines by the U.S. in 1898 sank Spain into doldrums of defeatism and economic stagnation that lasted for a generation...
Loftily declaiming that "my party calls me," exiled President Juan Bosch returned to Santo Domingo from Puerto Rico two months ago to start what looked like a presidential campaign-though he insisted that he would not be a candidate. He claimed he would "channel the capacity of the people," and huddled with old political cronies. At one huge rally organized by his Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) he demanded the withdrawal of OAS peace-keeping troops, even said the U.S. should pay $1 billion "indemnity" for its part in the OAS intervention.* For all the nationalistic talk, many Dominicans regard Bosch...
...back to 1962. Shortly after he was inaugurated President, Bosch began ignoring Miolán and started undercutting the party organization in favor of playing messiah to everyone, including the extreme left. When Bosch was ousted by the Dominican army in 1963 and both men took asylum in Puerto Rico, the split grew wider. After the April civil war erupted, Miolán publicly called for intervention to "prevent the genocide of the defenseless population of our capital," and later he launched an anti-Bosch whisper campaign throughout the country...
...Voting Rights Act. Labeled Section 4(e), it provided that no U.S. citizen could be denied the vote through a literacy test if he could prove he had a sixth-grade education in any "American flag school"-including the Spanish-language schools in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where residents have long elected their own Governor and legislature...
...Constitution, Congress had no right to impose laws governing voter qualifications in any state. Government attorneys had argued that New York violated the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause by disenfranchising Puerto Rican voters, pointing out that Congress acted years ago to encourage cultural autonomy in Puerto Rico by allowing Spanish to be the primary language in school...