Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, is an example of a waning Latin American type-the caudillo (chieftain). As a blend of the Emperor Jones and the European authoritarians, Dictator Trujillo and his ilk always seem bizarre to North Americans. But the southern dictators must be understood if Latin America is to be understood by the big neighbor in the North...
...Trujillo was very much in the news. Within the
fortnight, scathing criticism from far & wide had pointed up the
anachronism: <]f In Caracas, Provisional President Romulo Betancourt
announced that Venezuela would not recognize Trujillo and his
"assassins of liberty."
...Glory Road. Trujillo is the end product of a U.S. military occupation. When the U.S. forces got out of the Dominican Republic in 1924, Trujillo was a Major in the Marine-trained Army. By 1930 he had fought his way into the presidency...
Further auto ferry routes will be opened later, between Cuba and Haiti (fare: $40 a car), and between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico ($30 a car). Also a Cuba-Jamaica line is under consideration...
Driven by land-and-belly hunger, Haitians often slip across the boundary of the Dominican Republic, whose dictator is "Generalissimo" Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In 1937, Trujillo's army massacred thousands of Haitian settlers, burned their bodies or tossed them into common graves...