Word: trujillos
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Assembled in the clear, democratic air of San Jose, Costa Rica, the hemisphere foreign ministers last week quickly convicted Dominican Repnblic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of collusion in the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt on June 24. The proof (TIME, July 18), gathered by an Organization of American States investigating committee, might have been vulnerable to questions from a tough defense lawyer, but after 30 years of Trujillo's tyranny, no one was in a mood to demand full evidence...
Remodeled Mandate. After convicting Trujillo, most of the delegates backed Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ignacio Luis...
Arcaya in demanding vengeance in the form of tough sanctions. Though he too supported punishment, U.S. Delegate Christian Herter looked ahead to suggest a cure for ending the Trujillo dictatorship altogether: a special committee of the OAS that would oversee a free election to establish democracy in the Dominican Republic...
...President the dictator put a longtime henchman, Joaquín Balaguer. 53, lawyer, diplomat and lately Vice President. With his customary rich sense of irony, Trujillo then paid an official call on Balaguer, which featured a 21-gun salute for Trujillo. But Balaguer's acceptance speech to Congress contained an enigmatic reference to the fact that "a regime now 30 years old . . . cannot disappear overnight...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's retreat, by taking him out of stage center, left him less vulnerable to the growing pressures against him. They are: certain censure at the midmonth meeting of the Organization of American States for his attempted assassination of Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Washington's feeling that he is an embarrassing anachronism, disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church and opposition from the formerly tame middle and upper classes. If necessary, he can retreat further to the safety of the U.N. corridors in Manhattan. If at that point prudence indicates that the chief...