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Article: `Mr. Democracy' symbolizes bitter Caribbean truths
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 21, 1986
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Writing from the Dominican Republic
When I first met Juan Bosch in 1965 during the Dominican revolution,
he was "Mr. Democracy in the Caribbean." Then, when he was not
re-elected president, Bosch bitterly proclaimed him
self for "dictatorship with popular support."
By 1976, when I saw him again, he seemed uniquely at peace.
He had gathered around himself a small, intensely dedicated salon
coterie, and this man who had hated communism had decided he was a
Marxist after all.
And today? Today I find Bosch, a crucial figure in Caribbean
history, looking not much different than he did during those
turbulent days of revolution in 1965.
He has a political party now - a far-left party, ...