Word: trujillo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These guys," Tacho rasped, "want to overthrow Trujillo, and he's on an island. But they've got to have a base, and they've picked Puerto Cabezas [Nicaragua]. That means they've got to knock me out first...
Last month the dictators did the inevitable. In the so-called pact of the "Three Ts," Nicaragua's Tacho, the Dominican Republic's bloody little Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, and Honduras' aging Tiburcio Carias made common cause against the Caribbean Legion...
Unlike Dominican Dictator Trujillo, Tacho kills a man only as a last resort. A spell in jail usually brings an enemy around. If jail fails, the Guardia has a little electric device known as la maquinita. A wire is wrapped around the prisoner's scrotum, and if he is stubborn, the current is turned on. There are Nicaraguan exiles in Guatemala who cry in their sleep about the Little Machine. "Oh, hell," snorts Tacho, "that damned thing isn't so bad. I've tried it myself-on my hand...
...Mexico (TIME, Aug. 9) and who plans to visit the U.S. after his inauguration in November, turned up in Guatemala City. He and Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo found a mutual bond in their distaste for the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo and Nicaragua's Anastasio
...TIME did not say that the planes had been sent-merely that "Trujillo's mechanics were busy scraping the Dominican insignia off three P-38s . . . ticketed for Nicaragua." The tickets have apparently been canceled, temporarily. Meanwhile, Dictator Somoza of Nicaragua sends his two B-24s over to Dictator Trujillo whenever they need servicing...