Word: trujillo
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...lonely quarantine, the Dominican Republic last week was welcomed back into the hemisphere's family of nations. Meeting in its marbled Washington headquarters, the Organization of American States voted 20 to 0 (Cuba abstaining) to lift the diplomatic boycott and partial trade embargo applied to late Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Caribbean fief...
Originally imposed as punishment for Trujillo's attempt to assassinate Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. the sanctions were retained after the dictator's own assassination-as a warning to his successors against a new dictatorship. But after months of cliff-hanging crisis, the troubled country seems on the way to its first democratic government in 32 years. Last 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...
...which has worked hard for the peaceful transition of power, resumed diplomatic relations and prepared to uncork an outpouring of economic aid. To pump new life into the Dominican economy, which was bled white by the treasury-looting Trujillo clan...
...must be met: 1) the Organization of American States must lift all diplomatic and economic sanctions, and 2) the Dominican Republic must be allowed to share again in the U.S. premium-price sugar market and in Alliance for Progress aid, both of which Washington has withheld as punishment for Trujillo's misdeeds...
...which were at a peak of $36,600,000 before sanctions were imposed last year, are down to a rock-bottom $3,800,000, and its gold stocks stand at a minuscule $3,000,000. Much of the money drain is the effect of the sanctions, but the departing Trujillo clan looted the remainder. The continuing civil strife has choked off investment; industry and commerce are hard hit, and at latest count fully one-half of the tiny republic's 2,900,000 people are out of work...