Word: trujilloism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even a guided revolution is hard to control once it begins to roll. A week after the U.S. stationed warships outside the Dominican Republic's three-mile limit to help finish the dynasty of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle. On one side was the middle-roading, anti-Trujillo National Civic Union (U.C.N.), backed by an aroused civilian populace that went on strike to support it. On the other was Trujillo's powerful armed forces, under General Pedro Rodriguez Echaverria...
...night last week, Dr. Viriato Fiallo, the widely respected, 66-year-old general practitioner who heads the U.C.N., called, along with an aide, on Trujillo's leftover puppet, President Joaquin Balaguer. Politely but firmly, the visitors told the little (5 ft. 6 in.) bachelor that although they admired his firm resistance to the comeback plans of two Trujillo brothers ("the wicked uncles") a fortnight ago, Balaguer and the holdover cronies who surrounded him nonetheless represent "Trujilloism without Trujillo," and must...
...Balaguer!" The Caribbean republic was almost paralyzed. Steel shutters banged shut on shops; trees were felled across streets to block public transport. Mobs roamed the hot, narrow sidewalks and streets of Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), taunting cops and soldiers-who responded with tear gas and noise grenades-with the cry: "Boo Boo Balaguer...
...over town the Trujillo statues and street signs came down. President Balaguer rushed a measure through Congress changing Ciudad Trujillo back to the name Columbus gave it, Santo Domingo. From jubilation, mobs turned to selective looting, cleaning out homes and businesses of Trujillos and their friends...
...armed forces-Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria as Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, Brother Pedro Santiago as air force chief of staff. Balaguer worked to form a transitional coalition government. In this he was backed by the moderately leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party of longtime anti-Trujillo Exile Juan Bosch, by Fiallo's middle-of-the-road National Civic Union, and by some elements of the leftist 14th of June. A risky intervention, done with speed and good intentions, seemed to be working...