Fuera Yanqui (sound)

I dropped out of school few months later I was drafted into the army did my basic at Fort Jackson and went on to Fort Leonard Wood for Comet engineering after that I went to the Dominican Republic I was with the headquarters company US forces Don rep 1966 the first day down this bus load of people went by screaming Yaki go home I thought this was pretty funny I had read about this and there I was right there while they were saying it to me I wasn't seeing it on television what they told me while I was down there was I was protecting American interest and I should be you know ready to fight moment's notice [Music] our people are poor we have had enough of American [Music] tyranny for 25 years we suffered under the dictatorship of trilo he set up the contracts with American businessmen that exploit our people the Americans got rid of him when he planned to confiscate La Romana their largest Sugar Company in 1962 Juan Bosch won our elections he promised us Health Care land reforms and constitutional rights Kennedy supported Bosch he feared another Cuban Revolution and hope that profits would make us into a market for American exports but the Americans already operating in the Dominican Republic disagreed they encouraged a right win coup for 2 years we smoldered under rightwing repression in April 65 the Constitution lits from our wing of the army distributed arms to the people we see Santo Domingo [Music] two days later the United States sent in 20,000 Marines to protect its business interest and retain military control of the Caribbean the 20,000 American troops remain in Santo Domingo through the election of BOS and balager balager had the support of business interests the church the Dominican Army and the American troops people say that the elections were not clean the people are saying it and what the people say we have to believe we didn't see any bager supporters except for the ones in uniform soldiers went with the military people dressed as civilians during the campaign in the country in the towns they shot people wherever there was an electral rally they came and shot at the people and when they came to the homes they distributed Goods do you know what I mean the Yankee Invaders Kennedy I mean Johnson said that they had to make a clean and honest election that was when the PRD and the Christian socialist votes were scattered everywhere in 1962 the first electoral campaign was honest and fair I saw it here because I worked at the tables and counted the votes I made the packets and I put them in the boxes afterwards and saw that they were locked and taken away but not this time they took the ballots counted them and each man took a handful without the locks each could do as he pleased as far as I'm concerned the elections were a fraud the whole world knows about it because everyone in the Republic is talking about it our country is naturally Rich most of the land is AR 50% of the arable land is in the hands of 1% of the people the dominant industry is sugar and its dominance warps the economy one3 of the sugar production is controlled by lar Romana this is an American corporation part of the gulf and Western conglomerate the countryside around La Romana looks like pre-revolutionary Cuba in fact Cuban sugar owners who fled are now managing La Romana they employ Dominicans and Asians who they bring over on barges because they will work for less than the $150 a day the Dominicans demand the Americans have a strangle hold on the Dominican economy because through the sugar quot they control the World Market and the Dominicans sell sugar only to the Americans the telephone company the hotels and the one other major export boide is controlled by American companies the work is seasonal offseason the unemployment SS to 80% in the countryside much land lies follow this is of little concern to the few Rich Dominicans who live in Europe and to the Americans who control the companies that get rich of our land the stable crops rice and beans are often imported three out of five deaths belong to children and they are dying of various forms of EX servation and malnutrition tuberculosis is rampant our housing is bad or non-existent there are almost no rural hospitals the railroads are used only to bring the cane to the refineries and to take the sugar out of the country the repression of the balager regime and their American advisers has been systematic and brutal many of the Revolutionary women who have been armed and in the struggle since 1965 have been jailed on false charges no Dominican election without Revolution will be free of American control [Applause] [Music] when they overthrew the government of Professor Juan bash our leader Manolo tares hos went with a group to the mountains he knew that he would be killed and he still went at a demonstration of the 14th of June 1963 he said day we find ourselves without civil liberties we will go to the mountains and show our bravery and [Music] courage tares husto died in the mountains because he was an Anti-Imperialist because he wanted to give the peasants the workers and the students a better way of life in the April Revolution I helped as best I could as a woman I said that as long as I had any life in me I would stay with our men and struggle with them against Yankee imperialism and against our own oligarchy and its servants we still have a long struggle against Yankee imperialism and oligarchy but we the Dominican women and the men of the 14th of June are going to fight to the last drop of blood in our veins until all the Yankee troops are out of our country until our oligarchy crumbles and when there are no big land owners when the oligarchy dissolves we will be the Vanguard of the Dominican people we will raise a popular war to get the Yankees out of here this is the only kind of struggle which will lead to a government of the people there is a similar situation in Vietnam and in the Dominican Republic we have been occupied several times by it by Spain at the beginning by France and by the United States twice in this Century the American people who repudiate the war in Vietnam should understand the similarities which exist between Vietnam and the Dominican Republic Americans occupied the Dominican Republic in 196 and in 1965 they were forced to return because the Dominican people who were on the move for Revolution were not going to represent the interest of American Business the Dominicans understand that the danger of being occupied for a third time exists because we understand that the forces that need war in order to keep the economy going cannot quietly tolerate that the small the developed countries take the Revolutionary Road [Music]