Free Elections for Dominican Republic

U.S. policy in the Dominican Republic may take a slight turn for the better with the transfer of Ambassador Tapely Bennett to Portugal, a country that shares his antipathy to democracy. The reasons for the current “rethinking” in Washington are complicated. In part, the beginning of a change in U.S. policy is the result of the protests in both the U.S. and Latin America; but perhaps more important is the fact that the disastrous Dominican policy had reached a dangerous impasse. Th...