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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flank Speed Ahead. The Dominican most responsible for the U.S. military presence was Elías Wessin y Wessin, a tough little brigadier general who commands the country's most powerful military base and at the time the marines landed was the key force for law and order. Twice before, General Wessin y Wessin, 40, had relied on his planes and tank-equipped supporting troops to settle political disputes in the Dominican Republic. He was the man who deposed Juan Bosch in 1963, after a series of angry confrontations over Communist infiltration in the government. Now he was fighting...
...Republic's leftists did not make their move long before. The tinder for revolution has been building for generations, and in the unstable years after Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican military has been the strongest anti-Communist influence. Most often it was in the person of Wessin y Wessin...
William S. Barnes, assistant dean of the Law School and Director of Inter-American Studies, said that in deciding to support the regime of Wessin Y. Wessin the U.S. is opposing a constitutionally elected president. Barnes explained that although he feels we are justified in our Vietnam position, we have no right to be in the Dominican Republic...
...decision was for Wessin y Wessin because, according to the New York Times, Administration officials "mistrusted Bosch's judgment on the ground that he was 'color blind' toward 'reds' in his seven months in office in 1963." The U.S. government seems incapable of understanding that social reform, not Communism, is the central concern of Latin Americans...
...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...