Archive Report
Archive Report
American Intervention in the Caribbean
Dominican Crisis and a Regional Peace Force
The inter-american system, three-quarters of a century old this year, faces a fateful decision. Will it establish permanent peacekeeping machinery to deal with political upheavals like that in the Dominican Republic? Or will it treat the Dominican crisis as an isolated emergency and continue to oppose armed intervention in member states? Answers to these questions may be forthcoming at the 11th Inter-American Conference, scheduled to open at Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 4.1
The Council of the Organization of American States has already shattered precedent by creating a multilateral force to maintain order in the Dominican Republic. A resolution to that end was adopted May 6, eight days after the first 400 American marines had ...