Word: dominicano
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...country seemed relieved that the inauguration had taken place without violence. "Now back to work," remarked Banco Popular Dominicano President Alejandro Grullón. "The country has been paralyzed for the past three months." But Balaguer did not exactly retire without managing a few flicks of petty malice. His electoral commission arbitrarily awarded four Senate seats that had been won by Guzmán's party to the opposition, thereby giving Balaguer's Reformists a majority in the Senate. In perhaps the meanest stroke, Balaguer's sanitation workers suspended trash pickups during inauguration week, forcing Guzm...
...more to be proud of than to hide. There were still scattered reports of strong-arm repressions: 20 arrests in the city of Santiago. the "accidental" death of a youth jailed for ripping Trujillo's picture off a nightclub wall. The government outlawed the far-left Movimiento Popular Dominicano...
Behind Closed Doors. The only party is Trujillo's Partido Dominicano, to which all Dominicans who want to get anywhere must belong; government employees pay 10% of their salaries into the party treasury. Behind closed doors, Dominicans curse the Era of Trujillo. But no one dares murmur in public: Dominicans have gone to jail for complaining about the weather...
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