Word: trujillos
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...Trujillo is dead, but a legacy of a political system without politics lingers on to thwart the efforts of those who seek to establish representative government in the Dominican Republic. At present, the unexpected seems to have happened: a coalition government has been agreed upon, and for the first time in three decades Dominicans may have a government composed of several political forces...
...months since the assassination of Trujillo, groups of varying position have emerged from the shadows in which they were forced to remain under the regime of the Generalissimo. The largest of these are moderates, though of course some are more moderate than others. The Communists have been exiled, Trujillo supporters have been silenced by the wave of popular demonstrations against them, and the moderate groups who seek free elections and a representative government to replace the system of despotism-cum-plunder of the Trujillo era appear to have reached agreement...
...question of U.S. intervention, which Fidel Castro has of course seized upon, is not really very significant. The fact is that the legal government of the Dominican Republic requested a U.S. show of support, and to have refused, particularly after our declaration opposing the re-establishment of the Trujillo dynasty, would have opened the door to even more violence and bloodshed than was in evidence in the Dominicans' joyful, if tumultuous, farewell to the Trujillos...
...before a stable, progressive regime can be established--if ever. In time, with a spirit of compromise among Dominican politicians, and a tolerance in the U.S. of a government which may not always be to its liking, real representative democracy may come to the Dominicans, and the stain of Trujillo removed from politics--as his name has been removed from their capital city...
...with Armed Forces Secretary Rodriguez Echaverria, announced his own "conciliation" plan-which sounded more like an ultimatum: Balaguer would head up a seven-member junta that would include Rodriguez Echaverria and grant a virtual autonomy to the military, e.g., no military man would be punished for actions committed under Trujillo. Presumably this was his asking price. The opposition U.C.N. could only resume its strike in the streets, hopeful that the rioting would not get out of hand. Looking on, the U.S. was concerned that too sudden an overturn of armed authority might open the gates to Castroism-but also hoped...