Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Closeup! (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Bell & Howell Co.'s excellent documentary series now turns to Haiti, the French-speaking Caribbean nation uncomfortably situated between Castro's Cuba and Trujillo's Dominican Republic...
Byzantine Intrigue. Initially, Trujillo responded to the possibility of OAS action against his dictatorship by trying to camouflage the regime. Oppositionists were encouraged to participate in next year's elections. Trujillo removed himself from the palace, his brother Hector from the presidency, his son Ramfis from the chairmanship of the combined chiefs of staff. He turned over the regime to Vice President Joaquin Balaguer, an old henchman...
...dictatorship, Trujillo's totalitarian regime has within itself extremist and moderate wings, and they are engaged in Byzantine intriguing. Balaguer was a moderate, and for the moment Trujillo knowingly freed him to act. As the new president, Balaguer took office saying that his main job would be "continuing the process of democratization" and promised to seek a general amnesty for political prisoners...
After the OAS voted sanctions, the extremists, led by Trujillo's onetime secret police chief, John Abbes García, gained the ascendancy. Abbes, a combination court assassin and court jester who knows how to fawn on Trujillo's ego, took the bit in his teeth as Trujillo gave him rein. Powerful Radio Caribe, an ostensibly private radio station actually run by Abbes' henchmen, began attacking the Balaguer regime for being weak-kneed against the OAS. With the afternoon newspaper La Nación, also linked to Abbes, it "demanded" that Trujillo take over the presidency...
Watching the game from on high, Trujillo intervened to announce his confidence in Balaguer but suspended the "democratization" masquerade. Mobs sacked the headquarters of the pro-Castro Popular Dominican Movement and the "loyal opposition" Quisqueyano Party, and the legal opposition ended. Balaguer's amnesty bill is dying in Congress...