vacanos previously said:




mirabueno please enlight me what economic collapse? Also remember when Balaguer made it easier to our population to destroy our environment like the Haitian did. Jesus

generoso previously said:

Lack of information about historical facts, is the worse ignorance, since people tend to tilt towards their own filtered belief system, and disregard historical accuracy. This is the case with judgements of Balaguer. He was a conniver, manipulator, schemer, and a great disciple of Machiavelo's teachings. But he also had many virtues as well, and was not interested in money or corruption, always cared for the betterment of the country and it's infrastructure, was a great ecologists, did not hock the country out to banks and foreign governments, was very nationalistic and a fervent patriot, and had high personal valor and discipline, being devoted to service.
He was also an unrepentant Trujillista, and like a puppet master controlled the Trujillo military that kept him in power, and turned the other way when they committed many atrocities.
I am in no way defending him, but like I said before, he was a man of many personal points of lights and virtues that his present day imitators lack, copying only his bad traits.
Most persons are not aware that he was one of the main conspirators, along with his loyal military to overthrow the de facto Triunvirate, that had previously deposed Juan Bosch. And the conspiracy would have probably failed without his support. He turned against the revolution after being pressured by the US and the stubborn Juan Bosch position of the PRD to returning to power without elections. Had the PRD compromised and allowed the establishment of a military junta, and the return of Balaguer AND Bosch, for fair elections, the whole civil war would have been avoided. (as they compromised later anyway, but after many deaths and feeding of mortal feuds, by armed patriots on both sides).
The biggest faux pas was the order to bombard the civilians at the Duarte bridge and the National palace, by the incompetent General Wessin, who was also anti-Balaguer. After that stupid and logistically worthless mistake, the compounding of the war was inevitable.