WORLD. OUTLOOK
U.S. INVASION OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STIRS WORLD-WIDE ANGER
The White House decision to pull a blitzkrieg on the Dominican Republic and occupy the small, poverty-stricken, dictatorecursed country with 50,000 marines and paratroopers, touched off the greatest wave of anger against American imperialism since 1958-60. At that time, it will be recalled, Vice-President Nixon was received with
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stones and curses by angry crowds throughout his "good will" tour of Latin America; while President Eisenhower was forced to cancel a projected trip to Japan because of the explosive point reached in the pent-up wrath of the Japanese people.
Today Johnson would do well not to venture into Latin America, Japan, or almost anywhere outside the United States. He has become ‘the most hated man in the world. oo
Here are some samples of reactions in various cities:
Santiago de Chile: Hundreds of young people, mostly students, demonstrated in the streets May 5,. particularly in the area of the U.S. embassy and on Avenida O'Higgins, the main street of the capi~ tal, demanding that the U.S. get out of Santo Domingo.
All the political parties, including the governing Christian Democrats and the next biggest party, the Radicals, published resolutions condemning the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic,
The chamber of deputies called a special session which denounced the U.S. "aggression" and demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the island. .
Lima: Crowds of students demonstrated angrily against the U.S. They stoned the U. Se embassy.
‘ Quito: An estimated 200 students demonstrated here, At Guayaquil an automobile parked in front of the American consulate © was blown up. The resulting fire burned other vehicles,
Barranquilla and Cartagena: Demonstrations in these two Colombian cities included the stoning of the fagade of a U.S.- Colombian center and the burning of an American flag in Barranquilla. Police succeeded in blocking the burning of a second American flag in Cartagena.
Caracas: In full daylight a group machine~gunned the U.S. embassy. Other assaults were made against American business firms and cultural institutions. In scuffles with the police, 18 were wounded, Demonstrations were reported in many other towns in. Venezuela,
Rio de Janeiro: Despite the brutal military-police dictatorship of General Castelo Branco, 500 students staged a demonstration May 7 clearly aimed at the U.S.