Word: trujillos
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...journal says is going on in the world. Though there is no official ban on us in Cuba, distributors are afraid to handle TIME there for fear of trouble. In the past year, nine issues of TIME have been confiscated in the Dominican Republic (about as many under Ramfis Trujillo as under his assassinated father). We are currently banned in Spain and Portugal and their colonies, and in Indonesia too. We have run into trouble in the past year in Laos, Iran, and Jordan for stories that displeased the censors. In Ghana, a local distributor, on his own initiative, prudently...
Last week, on the ancient island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic at one end was still trying to recover from Trujillo, and went through two seizures of power in 48 hours. At the other end, in Haiti, the U.S. is trying to moderate one of the toughest dictatorships in Latin America...
...caretaker government of Joaquin Balaguer has fallen to a civilian-military juntaof ex-Trujillo supporters led by an Air Force general, Rodriguez Echavarria. Echavarria has been openly opposing free elections and the inclusion of liberal, moderate opposition forces in the new government. The ousted Balaguer had been associated with the Trujillo dictatorship, but had promised to step down on the 27th of this month and permit free elections...
...Dominican Republic is one of the few dictatorships where there are able opposition leaders capable of giving the country moderate rule. And there is still unrest enough for them to stir up popular demonstrations and even a general strike against the government. If the gangsters of the Trujillo era have time to consolidate their power, it will be too late...
...year. Equally important, the misery-ridden land is now eligible to share in the Alliance for Progress. The day the OAS lifted its sanctions, the White House announced that an Alliance "task force" headed by Teodoro Moscoso, Latin American director of A.I.D., will speed to Santo Domingo (once Ciudad Trujillo) to reckon up the national dollar needs for recovery...