By @led_black View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) On April 28, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent 42,000 Marines to the Dominican Republic, beginning a fourteen-month occupation of the country that would culminate…
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BY John Gutierrez In the spring of 1961, Julio Peguero was a 21-year-old sailor stationed at the Dominican military base at Haima. He was three and a half years into what would become a nearly decade-long military career. But…