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...words are familiar, but not the source. The broadcasts come not from Havana, but from Ciudad Trujillo's Radio Caribe. A month ago, to get revenge on Washington, a former friend now cold to him, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo began vilifying the U.S. with a powerful transmitter-20,000 watts on medium wave, 50,000 watts on short wave...
Most of the evidence marshaled by Venezuela came from testimony of captured plotters. As they told it, a C46 cargo plane took off June 17 from Caracas' Maiquetia airport carrying four passengers, including a self-styled Venezuelan general named Juan Manuel Sanoja. As the plane neared Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Sanoja instructed the pilot to radio the message: "Advise the Generalissimo that General Sanoja is aboard plane. Also advise Colonel Abbes Garcia...
...land at San Isidro Military Base," came the answer. The plane passengers were met by Dominican officials in Mercedes Benz limousines and driven to a house in Ciudad Trujillo. There they were shortly joined by Colonel John Abbes Garcia, 36, Trujillo's chief intelligence agent and hatchetman...
Whenever Dictator Trujillo's bloodhounds and thugs get too close, his intended victims know that Brazilian Ambassador Jaime de Barros Gomes will do his best to give them sanctuary. Early this year 17 Trujillo foes fought their way to Barros' embassy in Ciudad Trujillo and got asylum. Last month another 13 reached safety there. One day last week four more made a desperate...
...month-big money in Greece. Once they got to the Dominican Republic, they were ordered to draw uniforms and arms as members of Trujillo's foreign legion. When they refused, they were thrown naked into communal and solitary cells at La Victoria prison outside Ciudad Trujillo. They ate slop, were beaten unconscious with clubs and wire whips, scalded with boiling water. Treatment got better when they agreed to try soldiering, but after two months they still refused to enlist and were tossed back into jail. The Greek embassy in Washington finally negotiated their freedom...