Research Projects
One of ACLA's primary functions is to sponsor research projects which have an "intelligence" rather than "acadrnic" naim. The projects it sponsors rill thus attempt to identify in as specific a...
...individuals institutions exercise over Latin America . Due to a la c' of time, F7tCLA staff will not be able to function as research consultants for those ho wish to undertake such projects...
...It will be shown how the big ten industrial nations, whose chief financial representatives meet monthly at Basel, Switzerla nd, maninulate the worlds monetary reserves to their own political a nd economic advantage through their dominant voting power on the Board of the Internationa 1 Monetary Fund...
...an rticle, book, pamphlet or thesis...
...source of monetary support secured...
...The specific individuals and organizations that lobby for DominicanAmerican interacts are the center around which nower circultes when it comns to political decision-making in Washington concerning the Dominican Renublic...
...It iW-ill be shown how such aid is geared, not so much to the growth needs of the underdeveloned nations as to the rowth needs of the developed nations, in that its primary purpose is to nourish conditions favorable to foreign investors, assuring access to needed ratr materials and markets...
...Government agencies and by international agencies for "development" actually perpetuates the dependency of those nations upon the economies of the advanced industrial nations...
...WTith Cuba's turn left and the cancel:ltion of her huge quota, the Dominican Republic, still under Trujillo's rule, received the largest increase in its set quota...
...Therefore countries nd companies vie for influence in the halls of Congress s well as the executive branch of government through hired lobbyists (i.e., US...
...law firms, public relations firms and ex-government officials...
...It may be the largest single producer of sugar and sugar by-products in the world...
...2. That the esten dollar-based monetary system is likewise structured in such a ay that it perpetuates the dependency of the havo-not nations unon the have nations...
...Aid, Cornorate penetration and Monetary Dependency Edie Black Brazil will be used as a case study to shows 1. That the public aid poured into the underdeveloped nations by U.S...
...It is the largest single private nloyer in the country...
...The Surgr Lobby The USA sug:.cr quota est blished a system of competition between producing countries (and comnnies) for subsidized, highly profitable prices...
...The projects it sponsors rill thus attempt to identify in as specific a runner as possible the levers of control Lhich U.S...
...military occupation of 1965...
...It is subdivided into three parts, two of which are described below...
...lngth of tine needed to complete the project...
...I plan to identify how and through whom the sugar industry in the Dominican Republic is ccntrolled...
...South Puerto Rico Sugar Company lobbied successfully for retention of their large quota...
...and known prospects of future ublication.with table of contents or outline...
...But (continued on the next page)NA.CLA Iewsletter, ril '67 -9 until Trujills massassiation (ngiinoe,-d ith the" aid .id acswan o the CIA), tha Deminican economy, which is overwhelrigly dependent on sugar sales, could not take full oaftantage of.the quota increase because the OAS had placed economic sancations on Dominican exports...
...The staff will, however, keep a central file of roject descriptions and ill regularly publish in the itewsletter sutnr:ries of topics being undertaken, Those who are researching a subject 1-"ich falls un~-r the above efinition should send to the ACLA office, research ivision, a project description iving as uch information as possible on both the tonic pursued nd the methodology used...
...With Trujillo's downfall, the nationa lized (i.e., ex-Trujillo) sgar firms and the U.S...
...Brief summaries of three project descriptions already submitted follow The Dynamics of U Power in the Dominican enublic, 1960-66 Fred Goff, i ' ike Locker, rocter Lippincott This project will attempt to uncover the power structures in the United States that have determined the course of Doninicmn history in the 1960t's...
...I will focus in particular on the operations of the South Puerto Rico Sug:-;r Comany through its agents: the banks, subsidiary companies, contracted com_ panies, hiring and labor relations agents, lobbyists, public relations firms etc., The time span of the study will extend from Trujillo's assassination in 1961 through the Constitutionalist's revolt and the U.S...
...policy toward the Dominican Republic...
...travel being un- dertalken...
...the nature of the finished product ( .e...
...The focus of this study will be upcn the mechanics (or "politics") of I1y "currency stabilizing" loans and AID and Export-Import Bank "balance of payments" loa ns...
...and/or national sugar firms operating in that country...
...The allocation quotas mean millions for the countries involved as well as the US...
...ik close examination of the people utilized in this power network, their method of operation a nd interests (public and private) will most likely yield many insights into the forces shaping U.S...
...Such dCescribMions should include as .. ny of the ollotring criteria as possible: sources being used booksr, secial libra-ies, consultants, interviPewis, etc...
...The Dominican epnulic has been one of the largest exporters of sugar for years...
...Its Landholdings in the Dominican Renublic are in the range of 300,000 acres (not all in sugar production) and this includes some of the choicest agricultural and real estate development acreage in the entire Caribbean...
...The South Puerto Rico Sugar Company South Puerto Hico's Central Romana Division in the Dominica n republic plays a significant, yet overlooked role in the nation t s power and decision-making structure...
...Brazil: Case Study of U.S...
...uotas re set by Congress every tzwo years, but in between the U',4 D eartment of griculture has the prerogative to reallocate quotas according to the ability of a country to meet the set uota demand...
Vol. 1 • April 1967 • No. 3
