Word: trujilloland
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...State for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward went before the OAS Sanctions Committee. Despite reservations expressed in an OAS Human Rights Commission report (e.g., "the serious problem that has arisen as a result of the arrest and disappearance of several persons"), said Woodward, democracy was looking up in Trujilloland. "A vigorous political opposition acts openly, opposition newspapers circulate, key figures closely associated with the former regime have departed." The U.S. therefore recommended, he said, that sanctions prohibiting the export of petroleum products and trucks to the Dominican Republic be lifted. Remaining economic sanctions would stay in effect pending further progress...
There was, of course, no hint of foul play in the reports from Trujilloland. But the terrible deaths of the three sisters and their driver-who presumably was considered expendable-would be something for the 14th of June underground to think about...
...increasing international disgust at Trujillo's conduct could be understood by the news from Greece and Mexico. In Athens, 46 Greeks got out of a plane overjoyed to be back from Trujilloland. They had been recruited nine months ago by the promise of jobs at salaries ranging between $300 and $600 a month-big money in Greece. Once they got to the Dominican Republic, they were ordered to draw uniforms and arms as members of Trujillo's foreign legion. When they refused, they were thrown naked into communal and solitary cells at La Victoria prison outside Ciudad Trujillo...
...Views of Trujilloland...
...wild spasms of cheers when he told them: "Everywhere I hear the chant 'Trujillo next! Trujillo next!'" At Caracas' Central University, Castro himself tossed the first coin into a hat to launch a drive for $300,000 to start an invasion. Only 155 miles away from Trujilloland, bearded members of Castro's 26th of July Movement are already gazing longingly at maps showing the Dominican Republic's Cordillera Central, a forest region much like Cuba's Sierra Maestra. As Dominican exiles plot and plan, Castro's soldiers talk knowingly of landing strips...