Caribbean Cold War: The Many Enemies of Juan Bosch

[Charles EP M.]

Discuss this article by @Gary Oswald here!

 

[Charles EP M.]

Reading these, it's a smack in the face that all of the violence & dirty tricks done by the US & UK against Carribean states are about fear of Castro-backed communism and it's only on the sixth article we have a country where Castro actually was interested.

 

[Time Enough]

@Gary Oswald this is a fascinating article. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic didn't get the chance to have a calm period to rebuild in the wake of Trujilo, instead being forced into civil war due to a combination of Anti-Communist paranoia from America, a regional conflict with Haiti and internal problems. Interestingly, a while ago I vaguely pitched an idea for some AH Pulp:

1961,

Bill, an American expatriate and a former soldier of the Cuban Revolution is trying to quietly retire to a life of farming in Cuba, when he's given an offer by mysterious Cuban official, help lead a team of commandos to help overthrow General Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. Once in the Dominican Republic, Bill's group is betrayed and rounded up, with Bill and a fellow commando Celia being the only ones to escape. Now Bill must and Celia must work together and alongside some Dominican Revolutionaries, in finding out who betrayed them, to kill Trujillo and to ensure that the Dominican Republic can help decide it's own future post Trujillo.

Said Bill is akin to Bill Morgan (who in hindsight I would likely change to probably a Cuban or some kind of South American character), but having read your article, the real AH Pulp would the Pulpy AH hero fighting for the Constitutionalists against the Legalists and Papa Doc or the equally nasty Clément Barbot, amid the threat of war between Dominica and Haiti, which ends with Dominica secured and Daniel Fignolé preparing to help liberate Haiti in the near future. That seems like the potential for a hopeful ending to such a world.

 

[SpanishSpy]

Nice to find out who really killed JFK.

 

[RyanF]

Fascinating as ever reading about a nation (or nations in this case) of whose history I'm mostly ignorant.

Really intrigued by the Caribbean Legion, theirs and all the other attempted amphibious invasions mentioned in the article does make the Bay of Pigs invasion seem slightly less daft in isolation and more another example of the daft style of the time.