Dominican Republic 1965
We Oppose Intervention in the Dominican Republic
First published: January 1 1965;
Source: SDS Bulletin, Vol. 3, Issue 4, pg.21. From the Independent Voices digital collection under fair use;
Transcribed: by Amaury Rodriguez, 2019.
Transcriber’s note: This editorial appeared in the monthly SDS Bulletin published by the Students for a Democratic Society, the largest student group of the New Left in the 1960s.
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- Such intervention is clearly in violation of Articles 15 and 17 of the O.A.S. Charter and Article 2, Paragraph 4 of the U.N. Charter.
- Such intervention will undo all gains in Western Hemispheric relations made by “Good Neighbor Policy,” “Alliance for Progress” and The Peace Corp and, indeed, by the lessening of Cold War Tensions since 1963.
- Such intervention to deter revolutions claimed by our Government to be incompatible with U.S. interests will, of course, be continual because of unstable political and socio-economic conditions in Latin America.