when these U.S. imperialist ask “why are you here, in my country, then?” I let them know… cause you never left or let mine breathe! FUERA YANKIS DE MIERDA!!”

Just seven months after becoming the first popularly elected president in the #DominicanRepublic Bosch was overthrown by a military coup on September 25, 1963, with the support of the Dominican oligarchy, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and the US government. Bosch was responsible for a new constitution. A constitution that ensured basic civil and human rights, and established a popular democracy for the majority of the people. Sounding too much like “another potential socialist #Cuba,” the U.S. was determine to crush democracy in the Dominican Republic.

On April 24, 1965, a group of officers led by Colonels Rafael Fernández Domínguez and Francisco Alberto Caamaño, united a civic-military movement for the restoration of the 1963 constitution and the return of Juan Bosch for president. Domínguez and Caamaño received massive popular support. A revolution erupted demanding the return and reinstatement of elected president Bosch.

Instead, on April 28, the United States of America invaded the Dominican Republic to counter the advance of the Constitutionalists. US President #Johnson sent 20,000 US Marines, justifying the invasion by claiming that communists were within the civil-military movement and therefore could not be allowed to come to power.

The full extent of death and destruction endured by the Dominican people was not recorded and is not fully known, even today. Most estimates are that 3,000 to 4000 were killed; some estimates say that as many as 6,000 to 10,000 Dominicans were killed during this invasion.

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