SANTO DOMINGO.- Several revolutionary and community organizations will mark with various ceremonies tomorrow the War of April 1965’s 43rd anniversary, when a military-civic movement took to the streets to overthrow the illegal government headed by Donald Reid Cabral and reinstate Juan Bosch, overthrown September 25, 1963.
In a radio broadcast the late Jose Francisco Peña Gomez motivated the civil rebellion, while colonel Rafael Tomás Fernandez Domínguez headed the military wing.
The Caamaño Foundation, headed by Claudio Caamaño will coordinate most of the activities starting at 8 a.m. with the laying of a wreath in colonel Caamaño’s bust, located in the Altar of the Nation. One hour later the participants will gather in front of the Caamaño government headquarters on Conde street, in front of the Copello building.
The triumvirate that replaced Bosch was led by Emilio de los Santos, and included Ramon Tapia Espinal and Manuel Tavares Espaillat, with Reid Cabral joining later after de los Santos’ resignation.
The War of April (La Guerra de Abril) is one of the most profound events in Dominican Republic’s contemporary history.
From: United States
A great hero...
Caamano is the kind of guy who lets the world know that we dominicans have tried on pain of death to fight and establish a great democracy... Their lessons is an inspiration for all dominicans who seek a greater tomorrow.
From: Dominican Republic
He sure was Great Hero right along side,Juan Bosch.
To bad the FEW ELite of DR and the Imperialists, never let the establish great democracy happen.
Written by: Johnnyc, 23 Apr 2008 4:25 PM
From: United States
Isn't this the guy that invaded in the early 70's after extensive training in Cuba?
From: Dominican Republic
Isn't this the guy that invaded in the early 70's after extensive training in Cuba?
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His entry into history books came during the Dominican Republic Civil War that began on April 24, 1965. He was one of the leaders in the movement to restore the democratically elected President Dr. Juan Bosch, who had been overthrown in a CIA sponsored military coup d'état in September, 1963. This faction of loyalists came to be known as the Constitucionalistas, for their desire to return to a rightful and constitutional form of government, as opposed to the military junta that was in place.
click here to continue..............
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Caama%C3%B1oFrom: United States
I can't believe we are idolizing, eulogizing these great mooncalf's s of the past. Lets not waste time glorifying the ineptitude's of our forefathers, ancestors who are partly responsible for getting us in this Mess. Lets concentrate and funnel our intellectual resources on the incompetent Dominican political ideologues of today that are living lavishly on the expense of the people. Political mooncalf's of the PRD PRSC and PLD.
From: United States
¡ Eh Pa Fuera Que Van To!
Written by: Belial, 23 Apr 2008 8:54 PM
From: United States, Texas
p. 1
"POWER PACK"
Here's how Wiki today reports casualties resulted from Operation Power Pack, the 1965 US imperialist aggression against the Dominican people.
"Military
A total of 13 American soldiers died during the operation, mostly by sniper fire by the PRD. Over 200 were wounded.
A total of 20 (IAPF) Personnel were killed."
"Dominican
U.S. and Dominican sources both maintain that at least 3,000 civilians were killed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack0000
This (IAPF) was the Inter-American Peace Force, an alliance of political and ideological Latin American and USA whores that supported the 1965 US imperialist aggression, occupation, and genocide against the Dominican people.. In addition to the murderous 42,000 USA troops, Brazil ultimately sent 1130 troops, Honduras 250, Paraguay 184, Nicaragua 160, Costa Rica 21 military police, and El Salvador 3 staff officers.
con't
Written by: Belial, 23 Apr 2008 8:55 PM
From: United States, Texas
p. 2
Note how Wiki, a minor outlet of the US capitalist media, ignores Dominican military casualties and grossly and obscenely trivializes Dominican civilians casualties.
Some put the total number of Dominicans who perished as a result of the unjustified and unprovoked 1965 US imperialist aggression, totally based on lies and slanders, against the Dominican Republic over 40,000.
Today, US imperialists won't hesitate to do the same thing again and lie again about the Dominican casualties.
Written by: Belial, 23 Apr 2008 9:16 PM
From: United States, Texas
The Dominican patriotic resistance in 1965 to US imperialists and other foreign aggressors didn't seem to understand time was on its side.
All the resistance had to do was to survive by withdrawal of the mass of its military forces into the woods and mountains and accumulate more and more forces for a year or two.
The imperialist leader Lyndon Johnson had bigger fish to try to fry in 1965.
But many of the military leaders of the patriotic resistance had been trained by the US imperialists who taught these patriotic leaders how to lose in combat, which is the same policy the US imperialists follow today since the imperialists still dominate the Dominican military and police.
From: United States
Belia:
You are definitely anachronous. You really should have Scottie Beam you up!
Written by: muchacho, 24 Apr 2008 1:58 AM
From: United States, New York City
Ladronazo, my friend...I believe he's already there.
How in hell is anyone gonna try to pull a Mao or Ho on the Americans in the D.R. of 1965? A good percentage of people did not support Caamaño-Deñó´s side, especially in the countryside. A lot of those people weren't even aware a war was on until it ended. One of the tragedies of that war was that my father was a "colonel" under Caamaño-Deñó's revolutionary side, but his brother was a member of the armed forces. My dad and his group broke into a police precinct in San Carlos, near la calle Paris and found his brother ready to shoot him. He didn't, obviously, or I wouldn't by typing this. The police and military stationed there ended up giving them guns and ammo.
My father was one hell of a persuasive talker .
Written by: Abril65, 24 Apr 2008 3:06 AM
From: United States
Only the armed working class and peasantry of the Dominican Republic will bring about real change. The working-class of the D.R. had for the first time overthrown a U.S.-imposed, capitalist dictatorship after decades upon decades of being a mere neocolony of the international bourgeoisie.
Forget voting under capitalist elections, the example of April is there, now the Dominican masses must attempt again at establishing a real workers' state that serves their needs.
How dare the PLD stand hand in hand with reactionary elements like Elias Wessin (one third of the U.S. imposed triumvirate).
Que viva Abril!
From: United States
Dominican Group to Celebrate 43rd A. ???
Who is in Power today at DR?
Its PLD Juan Bosh Party ??
Its DR life better and safe than before ???
I celebrate and remember those who sacrifice their lifes for Dominican Freedom & Democracy !!!!
2LT Anton Sneider
2LT Charles Hutchison
SSG Norberto Duron
SGT Lauda Coleman
SGT William Winston
SP4 Gerald Kellerman
SP4 Joseph Plenty
SP4 Tripplelt Bridges
SP4 Joseph Phelps
SP4 Raymond Randall Jr.
PFC Joseph Dec
PFC Robert Waldron
PFC George Gardner
God Bless them All !!!!!
Written by: Lautaro, 24 Apr 2008 10:24 AM
From: Brazil, near Copacabana
For your info, mr. ignorant-in-all UN-perception, the "heroes" that you're celebrating are the ones which made possible the permanence of our kleptocrat elites in power, the ones that made the social illnesses that you've been so busy FLINGING TO OUR FACES a dreadful reality. So why don't you make us a favor and keep your callous opinions to yourself and leave us dominicans to mourn this day, perhaps one of the most tragic on our history, in peace?
From: United States
Who is in Power today at DR?
Its PLD Juan Bosh Party ??
Written by: Lautaro, 24 Apr 2008 11:05 AM
From: Brazil, near Copacabana
No, it's Balaguer's one right now, because its leader was forced to follow balaguerism by the elites. They gave him two choices: Remain with boschism and out of power, or embrace balaguerism (with all that it entails) and get empowered. What would you have chosen given the chance, eh, un-perception? As such, the PLD is a balaguerist party in all but name. And you can't deny it, since the rightist people of the FNP (a traditional balaguerist third party) have had more saying on this gov. than all the other leftist parties of the governing coalition put together.
Written by: muchacho, 24 Apr 2008 11:15 AM
From: United States, New York City
oy, vay!!!
From: United States
Brother, Your so Blind !!!!!
Balaguer at the end dislike Leonel, because he wasn't putting attention to his demands after the support offered in 95' !!!
You have to review your sorroundings more carefully, the reality is that Leonel its incharge, and he is no good for Dominicans and Democracy, and that has nothing to do with the US !!
So, your telling the audience that "Leonel" its been manipulated, Men stop inhalling that substance !!!
Traditionally, and history had prove it, this is your "populist" president and this is the government you deserve.
Keep Dreaming !!!
Written by: Lautaro, 24 Apr 2008 12:28 PM
From: Brazil, near Copacabana
You're the one dreaming if you don't believe that, were the people to get fed up and sack the elites of the country, that your gov would not come here with guns blazing "to restore democracy and order" and all the other BS lies and excuses that you're so good in producing on industrial levels. As such, all those bilateral military exercises that you're making with the dominican military ("Trade Winds") are just an excuse to asess the country's situation. That way, they'll know when to send the 82nd airborne on the first notice without having to face a revolution exploding in their faces as it happened more than once during that era. You're a fool if you think that Leonel have the power to rule without the consent of CONEP, ANJE, the high echelons of the Catholic Church, the military, the traditional families and lastly, but not for that the least, your Embassy, the main factor in every coup d'etat ever made on Latin America. At most, Leonel is only an overseer of their interests.
Written by: Lautaro, 24 Apr 2008 12:37 PM
From: Brazil, near Copacabana
(cont...) there's a running joke among Latin America's leftist circles that says: "The only country on the entire hemisphere that hasn't suffered a coup d'etat is the USA, and that is because they find themselves lacking a US embassy over there".
From: United States
So, all this "Institutions" that you mentioned before, are co-responsible for "Drug Trafficking", enjoy and enforced actual relations with Chavez and Cuba, and obliged Officials to descriminate against "Haitians".
Men your so Fool off it !!!!!!!!!!!
Written by: Lautaro, 24 Apr 2008 12:54 PM
From: Brazil, near Copacabana
Not directly responsible, but they turn a blind eye to it, as long as it doesn't hit their interests, you twit.
Written by: Lautaro, 24 Apr 2008 12:58 PM
From: Brazil, near Copacabana
As I said, if you think that Leonel established relations with Cuba and Venezuela without their consent, then keep dreaming. You'll find that, even though he has entered with them on sort of economic alliance, it's only an alliance of convenience (because the elites are craving venezuelan oil and the cuban professional's expertise), not because he (or his elite overlords) believe or will try to practice one iota of the cuban-venezuelan revolutionary discourse.
Written by: muchacho, 24 Apr 2008 1:30 PM
From: United States, New York City
Lautaro...
We did suffer a coup d'etat...when Jeb Bush helped Dubya steal the election, remember....
Written by: Lautaro, 24 Apr 2008 2:12 PM
From: Brazil, near Copacabana
LOL. I was completely forgetting about that, muchacho. Incredible enough, you'll find people over here gullible enough, like mr. perception here, that would be willing to swear for their mother's health that Jeb's brother won them fair and square. LMAO
Written by: Belial, 24 Apr 2008 2:59 PM
From: United States, Texas
"How in hell is anyone gonna try to pull a Mao or Ho on the Americans in the D.R. of 1965?"
0000
If the military leaders of the patriotic Dominican resistance in 1965 had studied Fidel, Che, and Sandino more than they studied the brainwashing lessons of their US military trainers and advisors who teach Latin American military personnel only how to lose in combat, the resistance could have "pull" a Mao or a Ho on the US imperialists, not on the "Americans," since most US citizens at the time either opposed the US aggression against the Dominican Republic (the same as they opposed the US aggression against Vietnam) or remain non-committal about the imperialist adventure in the Dominican Republic.
Written by: muchacho, 24 Apr 2008 7:40 PM
From: United States, New York City
Mao and Ho Chi Minh had the peasantry on their side. The Dominican campesinos were hiding their chickens because they swore Caamaño-Deñó had invaded with boat loads of communists from Cuba...at least that's what they were told. And that's the ones that bothered to know what was going on in Santo Domingo.
Face it, man...you're comparing apples to oranges. Mao had been fighting and indoctrinating the peasantry for decades while he waged war against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. Ho Chi Minh had the same advantage because the first phase of the Vietnam War was the independence fight against France. These things didn't happen in a matter of weeks or months...they took years. It enabled them to build up support to wage campaigns of attrition.
Enemy harrass, we retreat...you gotta have safe places and people willing to hide you to retreat to. Enemy advance, we harrass...you gotta have recruits to keep advancing.
Written by: Belial, 24 Apr 2008 11:06 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Face it, man...you're comparing apples to oranges."
oooo
All patriotic struggles had to begin. And often they begin under very adverse circumstances. But they must know how to begin to escape being wipe out.
Every patriotic struggle that defends sovereignty against the aggression of US imperialists is denounced by the invading US troops and by the US capitalist media as the work of "outside troublemakers."
For example, the Iraqi patriotic resistance, according to the US capitalist press, is today the work of "outside troublemakers" or "foreign fighters." Thus, the 140,000 US troops, 300 Dominican troops in 2003- 2004, the 130,000 US and pro-US mercenaries today are neither "outsiders" nor "outside troublemakers."
Every patriotic struggle for sovereignty must give the people a chance to overcome the effects of US imperialist brainwashing, so that the peope can figure out who is an outsider -- either their own people or the US imperialist troops and US mercenaries.
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Caamano is the kind of guy who lets the world know that we dominicans have tried on pain of death to fight and establish a great democracy... Their lessons is an inspiration for all dominicans who seek a greater tomorrow.
To bad the FEW ELite of DR and the Imperialists, never let the establish great democracy happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N5kbsc8GLg
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His entry into history books came during the Dominican Republic Civil War that began on April 24, 1965. He was one of the leaders in the movement to restore the democratically elected President Dr. Juan Bosch, who had been overthrown in a CIA sponsored military coup d'état in September, 1963. This faction of loyalists came to be known as the Constitucionalistas, for their desire to return to a rightful and constitutional form of government, as opposed to the military junta that was in place.
click here to continue..............http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Caama%C3%B1o
"POWER PACK"
Here's how Wiki today reports casualties resulted from Operation Power Pack, the 1965 US imperialist aggression against the Dominican people.
"Military
A total of 13 American soldiers died during the operation, mostly by sniper fire by the PRD. Over 200 were wounded.
A total of 20 (IAPF) Personnel were killed."
"Dominican
U.S. and Dominican sources both maintain that at least 3,000 civilians were killed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack
0000
This (IAPF) was the Inter-American Peace Force, an alliance of political and ideological Latin American and USA whores that supported the 1965 US imperialist aggression, occupation, and genocide against the Dominican people.. In addition to the murderous 42,000 USA troops, Brazil ultimately sent 1130 troops, Honduras 250, Paraguay 184, Nicaragua 160, Costa Rica 21 military police, and El Salvador 3 staff officers.
con't
Note how Wiki, a minor outlet of the US capitalist media, ignores Dominican military casualties and grossly and obscenely trivializes Dominican civilians casualties.
Some put the total number of Dominicans who perished as a result of the unjustified and unprovoked 1965 US imperialist aggression, totally based on lies and slanders, against the Dominican Republic over 40,000.
Today, US imperialists won't hesitate to do the same thing again and lie again about the Dominican casualties.
All the resistance had to do was to survive by withdrawal of the mass of its military forces into the woods and mountains and accumulate more and more forces for a year or two.
The imperialist leader Lyndon Johnson had bigger fish to try to fry in 1965.
But many of the military leaders of the patriotic resistance had been trained by the US imperialists who taught these patriotic leaders how to lose in combat, which is the same policy the US imperialists follow today since the imperialists still dominate the Dominican military and police.
You are definitely anachronous. You really should have Scottie Beam you up!
How in hell is anyone gonna try to pull a Mao or Ho on the Americans in the D.R. of 1965? A good percentage of people did not support Caamaño-Deñó´s side, especially in the countryside. A lot of those people weren't even aware a war was on until it ended. One of the tragedies of that war was that my father was a "colonel" under Caamaño-Deñó's revolutionary side, but his brother was a member of the armed forces. My dad and his group broke into a police precinct in San Carlos, near la calle Paris and found his brother ready to shoot him. He didn't, obviously, or I wouldn't by typing this. The police and military stationed there ended up giving them guns and ammo.
My father was one hell of a persuasive talker .
Forget voting under capitalist elections, the example of April is there, now the Dominican masses must attempt again at establishing a real workers' state that serves their needs.
How dare the PLD stand hand in hand with reactionary elements like Elias Wessin (one third of the U.S. imposed triumvirate).
Que viva Abril!
Who is in Power today at DR?
Its PLD Juan Bosh Party ??
Its DR life better and safe than before ???
I celebrate and remember those who sacrifice their lifes for Dominican Freedom & Democracy !!!!
2LT Anton Sneider
2LT Charles Hutchison
SSG Norberto Duron
SGT Lauda Coleman
SGT William Winston
SP4 Gerald Kellerman
SP4 Joseph Plenty
SP4 Tripplelt Bridges
SP4 Joseph Phelps
SP4 Raymond Randall Jr.
PFC Joseph Dec
PFC Robert Waldron
PFC George Gardner
God Bless them All !!!!!
Its PLD Juan Bosh Party ??
Balaguer at the end dislike Leonel, because he wasn't putting attention to his demands after the support offered in 95' !!!
You have to review your sorroundings more carefully, the reality is that Leonel its incharge, and he is no good for Dominicans and Democracy, and that has nothing to do with the US !!
So, your telling the audience that "Leonel" its been manipulated, Men stop inhalling that substance !!!
Traditionally, and history had prove it, this is your "populist" president and this is the government you deserve.
Keep Dreaming !!!
Men your so Fool off it !!!!!!!!!!!
We did suffer a coup d'etat...when Jeb Bush helped Dubya steal the election, remember....
0000
If the military leaders of the patriotic Dominican resistance in 1965 had studied Fidel, Che, and Sandino more than they studied the brainwashing lessons of their US military trainers and advisors who teach Latin American military personnel only how to lose in combat, the resistance could have "pull" a Mao or a Ho on the US imperialists, not on the "Americans," since most US citizens at the time either opposed the US aggression against the Dominican Republic (the same as they opposed the US aggression against Vietnam) or remain non-committal about the imperialist adventure in the Dominican Republic.
Face it, man...you're comparing apples to oranges. Mao had been fighting and indoctrinating the peasantry for decades while he waged war against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. Ho Chi Minh had the same advantage because the first phase of the Vietnam War was the independence fight against France. These things didn't happen in a matter of weeks or months...they took years. It enabled them to build up support to wage campaigns of attrition.
Enemy harrass, we retreat...you gotta have safe places and people willing to hide you to retreat to. Enemy advance, we harrass...you gotta have recruits to keep advancing.
oooo
All patriotic struggles had to begin. And often they begin under very adverse circumstances. But they must know how to begin to escape being wipe out.
Every patriotic struggle that defends sovereignty against the aggression of US imperialists is denounced by the invading US troops and by the US capitalist media as the work of "outside troublemakers."
For example, the Iraqi patriotic resistance, according to the US capitalist press, is today the work of "outside troublemakers" or "foreign fighters." Thus, the 140,000 US troops, 300 Dominican troops in 2003- 2004, the 130,000 US and pro-US mercenaries today are neither "outsiders" nor "outside troublemakers."
Every patriotic struggle for sovereignty must give the people a chance to overcome the effects of US imperialist brainwashing, so that the peope can figure out who is an outsider -- either their own people or the US imperialist troops and US mercenaries.