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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...
Democracy has never been one of Hispaniola's imports. Its local roots are only beginning to grow at the Dominican end of the island, not at all in Haiti...
...Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nations-Haiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti's President François Duvalier, a onetime physician, has done little to improve the lot of a country that depends on a $5,000,000 annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his neighbor, Dictator...
When Columbus first landed in northern Haiti (Hispaniola) in 1492, he captured a lovely Indian girl who was expensively but sparsely clad-with a golden nose plug and nothing else. Next day he found a town of 1,000 houses, some of whose inhabitants wore golden ear pendants. When he returned to Spain, he reported many of these small treasures...
...spate of political murders sent oppositionists into hiding and kept nerves taut. Behind the crisis lay President Francois Duvalier's fear that he would become a stepping stone in Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's planned invasion of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. "Haitian exiles are being trained in Havana," said Duvalier. Exhorting his people to fight back, he raised the war cry of famed Patriot Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806): "Coupe tetesl Boulé cailles!" (Cut off heads! Burn houses...