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In the tropical twilight of Ciudad Trujillo, the din of traffic along the sea front had hushed. A convoy of seven limousines drew up at the foot of the obelisk (white and floodlit like the Washington Monument), and from the car with the five-starred gold license plates stepped a...
At week's end, the Dominican Republic still shook. On the hills, refugees huddled under trees and in caves. Up to 73 had been killed; 20,000 were homeless. Next to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo himself, Dominicans had not known such disaster since 1930, when a hurricane swept the...
As a man of discernment and honesty, Dean J. A. Bonilla Atiles of the University of Santo Domingo's law school refused to plump for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's reelection.
Easy Aces. Whatever happened, it looked like the end of Lescot's political career. His impenetrable affability had been equal-till last week-to all occasions. A suave dictator behind a constitutional façade, chubby, pleasure-loving Elie Lescot had always paid his way with charm. As Ambassador...
His 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...