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A little trouble in a small Caribbean nation

A little trouble in a small Caribbean nation

Cuba was not the only troubled island nation in Latin America in the 1960s. Many countries experienced a shift toward the political left and were disrupted by a series of coups and assassinations, one of these nations is the Dominican republic. The Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, assassinated in 1961, was succeeded by Juan Bosch, the first […]

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The Puzzling policies of some small Caribbean Statesmen

The Puzzling policies of some small Caribbean Statesmen

In 1986 the 30-year reign of the Duvalier family ended when “President for Life” Jean-Claude Duvalier was forced into exile. The people of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, hoped that they would soon have a democratic government. The military regime that  first took control of the government reluctantly allowed an election to

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