A revised version of NACLAts first research paper, “The Violence of Domination: U.S. Power and the Dominican Republic,” by Fred Goff and Michael Locker, is now available
in published form.
The paper asserts and attempts to demonstrate that the base of Dominican power rests on economic, political, military and social structures within the United States, not
in the Dominican Republic. Furthermore, crucial decisions affecting Dominican history (e.g., the overthrow of Trujillo, election of Bosch, overthrow of Bosch, U.S. military intervention, election of Balaguer) were therefore determined within the U.S. structures and were executed by North Americans, indirectly (and covertly) and were at times linked to the U.S. government.
The 42-page paper appears in latin American Radicalism: A Documentary Report on Left and Nationalist Movements, edited by Irving Louis Horowitz, Josue de Castro and John Gerassi (New York: Vintage, 1969), 653 pp., $2.45. A hardback edition printed by Random House is available for $10.00.
The reader includes pieces by Fidel Castro, Emilio Mspero, Che Guevara, Eduardo Frei, Celso Furtado, Rgis Debray, Carlos Romeo, Gonzalez-Casanova, Camilo Torres, John Saxe-Fernndez and others.
