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The Dominican Cultural Foundation is inviting people to attend the launch of Brian J. Bosch\u00b4s book <\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>he Dominican Cultural Foundation is inviting people to attend the launch of Brian J. Bosch\u00b4s book \u201cBalaguer and the Dominican Military: Presidential Control of the Factional Office Corps in the 1960s and 1970s.\u201d Mr. Bosch, retired Colonel of the US Army, served as the US Embassy army attach\u00e9 in the Dominican Republic from 1970 to 1974. <\/P> Mr. Bosch, the author, narrates what he saw and reported about the involvement of the Dominican military with the political affairs of President Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer during his 12-year presidency (1966-1978).<\/P> The book launch will be held on Tuesday August 17 at 6:30 pm in the Peter Mir Forum of the Cuesta Book Center. Comments on the book will be made by Rosario Espinal and Wilfredo Lozano. The Dominican Cultural Foundation is inviting people to attend the launch of Brian J. Bosch\u00b4s book Dominican Republic, 08\/11\/2010 The Dominican Cultural Foundation is inviting people to attend the launch of Brian J. Bosch\u00b4s book \u201cBalaguer and the Dominican Military: Presidential Control of the Factional Office Corps in the 1960s and 1970s.\u201d Mr. Bosch, retired … Continue reading “The Dominican Cultural Foundation is inviting people to attend the launch of Brian J. Bosch\u00b4s book”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Mr. Bosch, the author, narrates what he saw and reported about the involvement of the Dominican military with the political affairs of President Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer during his 12-year presidency (1966-1978). Balaguer\u2019s skillful manipulation of the army and rival officers gave credence to the widely held belief that he was the \u201cpuppet master\u201d to whom the army \u201cnever failed to respond\u201d and over whom Balaguer exercised absolute control, removing officers from their post frequently and at will.
Bosch writes about the paramilitary group \u201cLa banda\u201d (the gang); the assault on a group of leftists in a cave on the highway to Caucedo; the never-ending power struggle between General Perez y Perez and General Neit Nivar Seijas and the political ambitions of the latter; the failed plot to overthrow the Balaguer government carried out by General El\u00edas Wessin y Wessin; the mass resignation of the Armed Forces hierarchy and Balaguer\u2019s subsequent reaction are just some of the topics covered in this unique book.
Four long chapters are dedicated to Francisco Alberto Caama\u00f1o\u2019s expedition when he and a small group of anti-Balaguer rebels landed on Playa Caracol. The author criticizes the Dominican military as well as the expedition members for errors committed on both sides.
The Dominican Cultural Foundation is presided over by Bernardo Vega. <\/P>
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