Writer Andres L. Mateo says the apology made by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro for the later’s endorsement of the 1965 invasion of the Dominican Republic by military forces should come from the General Assembly of the OAS. As reported in El Caribe, Mateo said the apology seems to have been made on behalf of Almagro himself to the Dominican people. He said the mea culpa was spoken in circumstances in which migration problems are mixed up with decisions of an international organization such as the OAS and they appear as an apology of a person, when it is the institution that should issue this through a resolution of the Assembly.” Last month, Almagro had been critical of Dominican migration policy, and went so far as to share his viewpoint that there could not be two countries on an island, in an interview with CNN espanol.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Second General Assembly of the Association of World Electoral Bodies (A-WEB) at the Dominican Fiesta Hotel on 17 August 2015, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro apologized to the Dominican Republic for the invasion by United States troops in April 1965. He said that the OAS should ensure that events of the past did not happen again and that the OAS deplores the invasion that cost the lives of more than 3,000 Dominicans and 31 American servicemen.
On 28 April 1965, 42,000 American troops invaded the Dominican Republic to prevent constitutionalists headed by Colonel Francisco Alberto Caamano Deno who were fighting for a return to the 1963 Constitution and the return to power of ousted President Juan Bosch.
Later, the invasion was supported by the OAS that created the Inter American Peace Corps that in essence has been described as no more than a facade to justify the unilateral action on behalf of the United States that had invaded of the Dominican Republic for the second time in the 20th century.
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