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Throughout most of the Cold War, the United States and the Or- ganization of American States (OAS) had tolerated repressive dictatorial regimes in the island nation of Haiti.
Intervention would have been complex and difficult, many other Latin American nations featured military dictatorships, legal mechanisms did not exist for meddling in the internal politics of another country, and at the time dictatorships seemed preferable to Communist regimes.