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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.
* The marines had obviously never heard that Leonidas and his Spartans did the same before their last stand at Thermopylae.
Six days before the election a secret message sped across the country from the underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In...
Last week the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to Brazil stalked into the Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of...
The wealthy, hell-to-breakfast sons of the late strong man President Leonidas Plaza of Ecuador were whooping it up last week. Reared to fast horses and bullfighting, habituated to settling disputes with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run...