Yankees Come Back
By admin . May 14th, 2008 . 5:00 AM PDT

Photograph shot by Jack Lartz (USIA) in Santo Domingo, during the Dominican Intervention of 1965. After waves of bloodshed had buffeted in the country in a seemingly irreconcilable conflict over the constitution, this welcome inversion of the more commonly heard “Yankee go home” message was not an uncommon sentiment in the Dominican capital.
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