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Article: U.S. invasion changed the Dominican Republic.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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- April 28, 2000
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ople of Latin heritage.
This week marks the 35th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic. Unfortunately, my native country is still suffering.
On April 28, 1965, 42,000 American troops invaded the Dominican Republic. By the end of the invasion, more than 3,000 Dominicans and 31American servicemen had lost their lives.
The invasion was not an aberration, since the United States had been interfering in the affairs of my homeland since the turn of the century. From 1916 to 1924, American Marines occupied the country.
In 1930, Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo won the presidency by a questionable 95 percent. Once in power, ...