The Dominican Military Force That Disarms the Rural Interior

We disarm the countryside we send in the marines they build all these roads so that we can you know Stop any sort of resistance to this new regime. We wind up confiscating about three million firearms Which is enough to arm every man woman and child in the country three times over That gives you an idea of how hard it was to control this place They have three guns for every person in the country out in the just out in the sticks, you know um Very heavily armed little land before we come there and we take all of their guns and we dump them into the sea.