Word: dominicana
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...plane landed at 4:40 a.m. last Tuesday, he was met by Dominican authorities and informed, much to his surprise, that his papers were not in order. Detained in the airport's international zone, Wilson was told just minutes before takeoff that he was being placed on Dominicana Airlines flight 902 to New York City, leaving at 9 a.m.; when the fugitive explained that he did not have a visa for the U.S., the local officials told him not to worry, he would probably be welcomed anyway. Wilson boarded the plane, as did two U.S. marshals. When the plane...
Pridefully, Trujillo's radio station La Voz Dominicana reported the letter of capitulation addressed to "the benefactor of the fatherland" by the six bishops: "We are coming to Your Excellency with the wish to continue cooperating. There has been a deterioration in relations that we are the first to deplore. None of us could have suspected the misinterpretation given our pastoral letter. We are the first to condemn such distortions of truth. We do not say that there have been no imprudent acts in the ecclesiastical sphere. We acknowledge them. To this end, we propose 1) to remind...
...outspoken broadcast of La Voz Dominicana called Batista an unscrupulous, evil man and a petty figure "hated by the very stones in Cuba...
...coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
...Life." If Arana did not know he was in danger, it was not for lack of warning: the radio station of the Dominican Republic's Arevalo-hating Rafael Trujillo, who has an excellent intelligence service, began interrupting programs with a special message. "Hello, hello Guatemala," said the Voz Dominicana. "Calling