Talk:Dominican Civil War

Merger Proposal

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The result of this discussion was to merge the articles. Catlemur (talk) 19:58, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

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I propose that Dominican Civil War be merged into United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66), under the name of Dominican Civil War. The two articles pretty much describe a single conflict, additionally I am in the process of expanding the background section and adding references.Catlemur (talk) 12:55, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

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B-class Review

This is a very interesting article. However, after reading it I was not clear on who were on the two sides. Here are some items that need to be addressed. Djmaschek (talk) 20:45, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

• The introduction does not clearly spell out who was fighting. For example, it says Bosch was constitutionally elected but then it says Wessin acted against the "rebels". If someone is elected, how can he be a rebel? More explanation in the introduction is needed to define who is a loyalist and who is a rebel.
• The article uses the terms "loyalist" and "rebel" and "constitutionalist" without explicitly defining who is who.
• Paragraph 2 of the April revolution section says, "Wessin ... who in turn branded the government troops as Loyalists ..." The article seemed to suggest Wessin was a loyalist, so this statement is confusing.
• In paragraph 5 of the Background section, Trujillo is first mentioned but I cannot find a link. I believe this refers to Rafael Trujillo.  Done
• There are a number of grammatical errors which I will fix.  Done Please take care of the other bullet points. Thanks.

Here is a sentence from the last paragraph under Background. Djmaschek (talk) 23:29, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
"Wessin expelled Bosch from the country and instated Donald Reid Cabral as the new president. The newly elected president failed to gather popular support..."

• "Instated" implies "appointed" but then it says Cabral was "newly elected". Was he appointed or elected, or was it a sham election? Done

All these items have been addressed. B-class. Djmaschek (talk) 20:27, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Article begs the question: communists?

The article states several times that the US was concerned about foreign support to communists. During the height of the Cold War, and in he post Cuban Revolution era, it seems like a legitimate concern. Were Ambassador's warnings justified? What exactly was the extent of foreign support to the communists/rebels/etc? Who was supporting them? How? --173.66.74.186 (talk) 08:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

There is absolutely no evidence that the rebels received any foreign support, despite the fact U.S. decided to act, in order to prevent a second Cuban scenario.It was a situation similar to the War in Iraq.--Catlemur (talk) 09:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Article is greately biased in favor to US

• Not a word about false claims about communists-infested constitutionalists movement, Cuban involvement, several CIA-provided to Johnson administration 'Lists of commies' (containing peoples already dead or persons who visited Cuba long before 1959 revolution).
• Not a word that US forces many times provided supplies, guidance or even fire support for loyalists troops, which was reported by local&foreign media at time. Especially kill of constitutionalists leader Rafael Fernández Domínguez by US Marines 15 May 1965.
• The description of June 15 clash misleadingly omits the year (it was 1965, no 1966 as it looks from context), and do not provide even official US position of retaliate offensive move against constitutionalists, it was not a constitutionalists rush to US troops. Not surprise that this section have no links to sources at all...

Sources: Eric Thomas Chester: Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff and Commies: The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXXII, Dominican Republic; — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.222.206.247 (talk) 17:45, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Reference links and page errors

The 1st reference link (http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/PowerPack.pdf), leads to a 404-page not found error. Maybe this is the correct link: https://cdm16040.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16040coll3/id/23?

The 7th reference link is under "Dominican Republic" is http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/Random%20Narratives/Dominican%20RepublicRN1.2.pdf. This also leads to a "Page not found" error. I think the correct link is under the "Archived" hyperlink instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20150703220151/http://web.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/Random%20Narratives/Dominican%20RepublicRN1.2.pdf.

The 8th and 12th hyperlinks under "the original" don't work. Ladybugsawake (talk) 22:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)