Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, Uncle Sam's intervention in favor of the right-wing military may do more for the Communists than he could have done by sitting on his thumbs. Dominicans remember that the last time the gunboats came to their island, Trujillo emerged from the ensuing struggle. His dictatorship lasted 32 years. Many Dominican democrats fear a return to U.S. supported Trujilloism in the person of Wessin y Wessin. They are being forced to make common cause with the Communists in the fight for non-military government...
...Donny Reid's troubled Caribbean island, that is saying something. Soldiers with machine guns ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years under Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Even after his assassination in 1961, the military held the real power-partly out of habit, partly because there was no civilian strong enough to run the country. In 1963 the generals ousted President Juan Bosch in favor of a civilian triumvirate that was expected to serve as a front. To all intents and purposes, the civilian leadership has now been reduced to Donny Reid, and in the past 15 months he has proved...
Member in Good Standing. Donny Reid has also faced up to the economic problems. The Trujillos left the treasury badly depleted and the sugar-cane-based agriculture in chaos. Reid is carrying out an agrarian reform that, among other things, gives former Trujillo acreage to landless peasants, and is pushing a program to teach modern farming methods. He cut military spending, started a forest-conservation program, tax reform and a plan to build more schools, hospitals, low-cost houses and roads. Most important, he launched an austerity program to bring the nation's foreign spending into line with...
...about tax dodgers. "We cannot act as a policeman for foreign governments," argues Schaefer. He says that his bank provides numbered accounts only for people known to its officers-"not Al Capones or South American generals" -and that it turned down deposits from the Dominican Republic's ousted Trujillo family. But he allows that "not all banks in Switzerland apply the same standards...
...much do you feel your'liberty is worth?" asked the Rouen judge. "Twenty million francs!" shouted Rhadames Trujillo, 22, son of the slain Dominican dictator, who was thrown in the hoosegow on charges brought by relatives trying to sink their teeth into the family fortune of $100 million or so. "Excuse my client," pleaded his lawyer. "He is blinded by the thought of the freedom he wants so desperately." So the court blinked at Rhadames' clinker, set bail at only 10 million francs ($2,000,000), which his mother, sister and brother put up in a wink...