July 02, 2006
More cheap election irony
From "The Haitian Political Situation and Its Effect on the Dominican Republic: 1849-1877," William J. Nelson, The Americas, vol. 45, no. 2, (1988), page 227:
The Dominican Republic, which has once again exhibited the fragility of its political institutions by taking over two weeks to ascertain a winner in its last presidential election...
This paper also uses the phrase, "one of the worst politicians in all of Latin American history". No, it's no one you're likely to know.
Incidentally, if you were writing a short summary of Trujillo's reign, would you put Trujillo's Rwandan-style machete massacre of several tens of thousands of Haitian-Dominicans in 1937 at the forefront (worst act of a despicable man), in the middle (chronologically), or as a passing aside twenty pages later (Jared Diamond)?
Posted by coyu at July 2, 2006 12:00 PM"Incidentally, if you were writing a short summary of Trujillo's reign, would you put Trujillo's Rwandan-style machete massacre of several tens of thousands of Haitian-Dominicans in 1937 at the forefront (worst act of a despicable man), in the middle (chronologically), or as a passing aside twenty pages later (Jared Diamond)?"
So, are we ever going to see that extended smackdown of Diamond?
Best,
Bruce
... I don't like being angry.
Posted by: Carlos at July 4, 2006 05:48 AMDamnit, Carlos. I'm almost willing to steal some of Lyuda's Crimean wine - Magarach and Massandra wineries - as a bribe to you into doing your full review.
Posted by: Will Baird at July 5, 2006 08:17 AM