Abstract
The previous chapter sought to describe and analyze how the networks of rule that produced the Balaguer state in the southwest were created and re-created through forms of interaction. The objective of this chapter is the same, but I shift the empirical focus. I shall examine not how La Descubierta’s leaders and masses gave shape to the public sector, but how they participated in elections. The chapter focuses on the presidential and municipal elections in the 1980s and the early 1990s.
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Colonel Francisco Caamano was murdered in February 1973 “after being taken prisoner in the mountains while trying to establish a guerrilla foco similar to that attempted by Che Guevara in Bolivia… When he reached the Dominican mountains in February 1973 eight years after the revolt of 1965, the country had changed enormously…Many of Caamano’s old comrades had changed during these eight years as they watched their colleagues fall victims to the government’s terrorism. Others joined the world of business in an expanding economy” (Moya Pons 1990:529).
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Krohn-Hansen, C. (2009). Negotiating Rule: Political Fraud as Interaction. In: Political Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617773_5
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