The U.S. official was in captivity for two days and the kidnappers managed the release of 21 leftist prisoners who were in Victoria
Colonel Crowley Kidnapping demonstrated operational level of the left Dominican
Written by: Chichi De Jesus Reyes
(chichídejesus46@hotmail.com)
are met today, March 24, 1941 years of the kidnapping of the aggregate of U.S. embassy in the country, Colonel Donald J. Crowley, while the officer was exercised in the polo field of the Ambassador hotel.
The kidnapping occurred in the early hours of the morning and immediately the authorities attributed the operation to a score of leftists who are in prison and whose freedom they demanded in exchange for U.S. military attache.
The group was headed by General Secretary Dominican Popular Movement, Maximiliano Gómez (El Moreno).
The kidnappers, six in total, since they were in hiding, were identified as members of a so-called Anti-reelection Kingdom Command Military and Civil, while revealing that the main objective of the kidnapping "is to achieve the release of MPD secretary, "but in the statement of their demands included other leftists.
addition to the the list formed Moreno Efrain Sanchez Soriano, Clodomiro Gautreaux, Juan Pablo Gomez, Winston Vargas Valdez, Manolo Plata, Héctor and Antonio Marcos Santana, Ricardo Martínez, José Gil Torres, Daniel Valdez Vizcaino Luis Emilio Arias, Hugo Alfonso Hernández, Manuel Antonio de los Santos, Ignacio Polanco Mars, Alexis Ramirez, Angel Dario Alcántara, Miguel Reyes Santana and Rafael Villa Cartagena, the latter subsequently involved in the death of Gen. Juan René Beuchamps Javier.
The kidnappers set the 10 hours of the morning the following day for allegedly executing Crowley, in case the government of President Joaquin Balaguer obtemperara no to his request to release the leftists. Hundreds of people gathered in the square Duarte, Colonial Zone, under the slogan that if they killed one of the political detainees, "the gringo will be executed." Hundreds of police officers with heavy weapons encircling the area of \u200b\u200bthe protests.
Passing the time, informed the demonstrators that the government was willing to release the leftists, provided that all leave the country. This offer caused the hijackers had to modify their demands, but maintained the position that "we must all remain on home soil." Demonstrators held the same position focused on the square.
Speaking on behalf of his teammates, Juan Pablo Gomez suggested the formation of a mediation committee composed of the rector of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, Dr. Rafael Kasse Acta, Bishop Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito and Dr. Welcome Mejía Mejía, president of the Dominican Association of Lawyers (Adoma) to find a solution to the situation.
The commissioners began their mediation but withdrew hours after the police chief, General Rafael Guillermo Guzmán Acosta, warned the kidnappers of Crowley that "prisoners may be at risk percent in case something happens to the military American. " With the untimely
claim police chief, Ambassador Francis Meloy Jr. and the press attaché, Frank Chianconi was put in charge of the negotiations concluded on the evening of Thursday 26, with the release of prisoners Polanco Brito and accompanied by the Ambassador of the Aztec nation, Francisco García Spartan, while at Crowley returned, unharmed, to the U.S. embassy.
supposed to mortify the President Balaguer, his release from prison of La Victoria, one of the leftists, Marte Polanco, demanded that the group was escorted to the airport "for four European ambassadors" to what the president snapped: "these four and all the ambassadors who want, but leave."
Colonel Crowley Kidnapping demonstrated operational level of the left Dominican
Written by: Chichi De Jesus Reyes
(chichídejesus46@hotmail.com)
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| Donald J. Crowley, Colonel United States Army. |
The kidnapping occurred in the early hours of the morning and immediately the authorities attributed the operation to a score of leftists who are in prison and whose freedom they demanded in exchange for U.S. military attache.
The group was headed by General Secretary Dominican Popular Movement, Maximiliano Gómez (El Moreno).
The kidnappers, six in total, since they were in hiding, were identified as members of a so-called Anti-reelection Kingdom Command Military and Civil, while revealing that the main objective of the kidnapping "is to achieve the release of MPD secretary, "but in the statement of their demands included other leftists.
addition to the the list formed Moreno Efrain Sanchez Soriano, Clodomiro Gautreaux, Juan Pablo Gomez, Winston Vargas Valdez, Manolo Plata, Héctor and Antonio Marcos Santana, Ricardo Martínez, José Gil Torres, Daniel Valdez Vizcaino Luis Emilio Arias, Hugo Alfonso Hernández, Manuel Antonio de los Santos, Ignacio Polanco Mars, Alexis Ramirez, Angel Dario Alcántara, Miguel Reyes Santana and Rafael Villa Cartagena, the latter subsequently involved in the death of Gen. Juan René Beuchamps Javier.
The kidnappers set the 10 hours of the morning the following day for allegedly executing Crowley, in case the government of President Joaquin Balaguer obtemperara no to his request to release the leftists. Hundreds of people gathered in the square Duarte, Colonial Zone, under the slogan that if they killed one of the political detainees, "the gringo will be executed." Hundreds of police officers with heavy weapons encircling the area of \u200b\u200bthe protests.
Passing the time, informed the demonstrators that the government was willing to release the leftists, provided that all leave the country. This offer caused the hijackers had to modify their demands, but maintained the position that "we must all remain on home soil." Demonstrators held the same position focused on the square.
Speaking on behalf of his teammates, Juan Pablo Gomez suggested the formation of a mediation committee composed of the rector of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, Dr. Rafael Kasse Acta, Bishop Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito and Dr. Welcome Mejía Mejía, president of the Dominican Association of Lawyers (Adoma) to find a solution to the situation.
The commissioners began their mediation but withdrew hours after the police chief, General Rafael Guillermo Guzmán Acosta, warned the kidnappers of Crowley that "prisoners may be at risk percent in case something happens to the military American. " With the untimely
claim police chief, Ambassador Francis Meloy Jr. and the press attaché, Frank Chianconi was put in charge of the negotiations concluded on the evening of Thursday 26, with the release of prisoners Polanco Brito and accompanied by the Ambassador of the Aztec nation, Francisco García Spartan, while at Crowley returned, unharmed, to the U.S. embassy.
supposed to mortify the President Balaguer, his release from prison of La Victoria, one of the leftists, Marte Polanco, demanded that the group was escorted to the airport "for four European ambassadors" to what the president snapped: "these four and all the ambassadors who want, but leave."
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