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Lordly Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, longtime dictator of the Dominican Republic, has had a generally critical U.S. press ever since 1930-Year One of the Era of Trujillo, as the country's official documents call it. But he has not lacked for private defenders in the U.S. "He can be...
After playing a splashy role at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly (TIME, March 9), Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo went on last week to new triumphs which were certain to get big play in the press back home. Appearing at the White House with two armed bodyguards...
Of all the glittering, imposing or sinister figures who descend on Manhattan when the United Nations General Assembly convenes, the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky usually attracts the most attention. But on opening day last week, Vishinsky had to yield the spotlight to a strong-jawed newcomer...
Dominican Republic. Since 1930, the personal plantation of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
In Latin America, democracy has special meanings. In Juan Perón's Argentina, democracy is a boss and his wife on a balcony plus "social justice" (wage rises, free cakes at Christmas, old-age benefits) for all who bow down to them. In some of the Andean countries...