Lyndon Johnson Administrations - Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Johnson's first foray into foreign policy exhibited these well-worn anticommunist reflexes. In the wake of the 1959 Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro, U.S. foreign policy in Latin America was on a permanent emergency basis. In April 1965 a group of liberal army officers in the Dominican Republic began a revolt hoping to restore their exiled leader—Juan Bosch—to power. Bosch had been elected in 1963, but his regime was toppled by a conservative coup after less than a year in power. At first bloodless and successful, the liberal coup of 1965 soon ran into opposition from the upper classes who allied themselves with older, more conservative senior officers. It appeared that a full-scale civil war was imminent.
U.S. officials in the country sided with the conservatives and informed Johnson that U.S. interests would be threatened by the return of Bosch. At the same time fighting broke out and nearly one...
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