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...methods she is employing." Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt said that Latin American democracies must take charge of telling the Soviet Union to "keep hands off America"' -though to him the first order of hemisphere business was to cope with the Caribbean threat posed by the Dominican Republic Dictator, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, whose agents last month tried to assassinate Betancourt...
...punishing Fidel Castro by canceling the rest of Cuba's 1960 U.S. sugar quota, the U.S. at first seemed in the embarrassing position of giving a windfall to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Under the law, Cuba's canceled quota was to be split among other traditional foreign suppliers to the U.S. Trujillo's normal 111,157-ton share of the U.S. market promised to grow by more than 200%, giving an extra $29 million to the Dominican sugar industry, which Trujillo virtually owns. Last week the U.S. found a way to cancel Trujillo...
...tacitly made two demands in return for their support. One was that the U.S. should make no unilateral move against Castro. The other was that the U.S. must support Latino efforts to get rid of dictatorship and backwardness throughout the hemisphere. Last week, when it became plain that Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic was back of the recent attempt to assassinate Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, the U.S. took a leading role in calling for a special meeting of the OAS that could lead to punishment of Trujillo by diplomatic or economic sanctions...
Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has done many harsh acts and some stupid ones in his 30 years in power. But perhaps none has ever matched the deed he was accused of last week. The Organization of American States listened to detailed evidence that Trujillo personally plotted last month's nearly successful assassination attempt against Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. The OAS found the case persuasive enough to vote 19 to 0 (with the Dominicans and the Venezuelans abstaining) to judge the evidence...
...kill Betancourt? Venezuelan intelligence agents had earlier warned the President that cronies of ousted Dictator Pérez Jiménez had hired four ex-Nazi military engineers in Spain to do the job. Last week, after the blast, Betancourt also implicated an old enemy: Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The bombing was no amateur blast. It was set off by remote control, showing a technical skill with explosives. The plotters also had access to minute information about Betancourt's movements. Laid low by gall bladder trouble for a week before the Armed Forces Day celebration, Betancourt...