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Staying True. When the Constitutionalist Venustiano Carranza and his "new, nationalist entrepreneurs" became powerful in 1914, Zapata met his match in tenacity and deadly seriousness. The Carrancistas plundered, says Womack, "not for fun but on business." Zapata recognized that Carranza posed a serious threat to the Plan de Ayala. Even the thought of meeting Carranza's envoys filled Zapata with dread...
Here is the crux of the problem: "The President has no guns." A year ago, this was not the case. The "constitutionalist" revolution of April, 1965 gave the Dominican people their first, and perhaps their last, chance to break out of the political prison constructed for them by Trujillo and his heirs. The urban populace--in Santo Domingo and Santiago and San Francisco--armed itself, split and then defeated the military, and came within hours of constructing a new ruling coalition: liberal lawyers and professors, progressive businessmen, small peasants, students, and workers...
...strange kind of "balance." Since the formation of the provisional government, the U.N. has reported that over 200 constitutionalist leaders have been murdered by right-wing assassins, while there has been almost no violence against the right-wing. The U.S. has done nothing about these murders. All of the constitutionalist officers have been forced into diplomatic exile; only two of the right-wing officers have left the country. The U.S. refuses to see anything "irregular" in this. Several times the provisional government has combed Santo Domingo to disarm constitutionalist civilians, though even the communist factions--which are very small--have...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling if biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising constitutionalist whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to the Lincoln Administration's wartime measures made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling, if somewhat biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising old constitutionalist, whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to wartime measures of the Lincoln Administration made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...