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"Our peerless leader has disclosed that the re-establishment of the office of Vice President is being considered," reported El Caribe, newspaper mouthpiece of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo, Ambassador Extraordinary, Benefactor, etc., etc.-and for the past 24 years its Dictator. It was electrifying news...
Discerning Dominicans, who know that letters to El Caribe are the Benefactor's way of informing the public about the current state of public demand, read avidly on for more clues. At last came a letter that not only seconded the creation of a vice-presidency, but significantly added...
The brusque official decrees that cut Paulino down were shock enough for the readers of Trujillo's house-organ daily, El Caribe, which always before had only lavish praise (Paulino had been the paper's publisher). Going on from there in editorials El Caribe gave some details on...
While the boss was in Spain on a recent state visit, it appeared, Paulino had undertaken to further his ambitions by "sowing discord" to "divide and conquer" the armed forces. Item: Paulino humiliated a Trujillo favorite, Rear Admiral Lajaro Burgos, "calling him by the name of Napoleon, and not by...
But Admiral Lajaro Burgos foiled Paulino by flying off to Spain and tattling to the dictator. On Trujillo's return, El Caribe concluded lyrically, "the sword of the Biblical angel flashed over the stupid head [of Paulino], casting him out of paradise and into reproach."