Word: trujillo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret was there for anyone who would listen. Around the little Hotel San Luis on Havana's Belascoáin Street, the talk was loud & long about "going to Santo Domingo to fight Trujillo." Mostly the talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster...
...Trujillo understood just how to deal with this sort of business. Yellow-eyed Julio Ortega Frier, his Washington Ambassador, broadcast that "3,000 Communist revolutionaries" were training in eastern Cuba, fixing to invade Trujilloland. Five days later he reported that 1,000 of them had already set sail in two landing barges and a corvette. But nothing happened...
...years of power, Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina has never had to worry about winning elections. He has always rigged them so carefully that he was sure to win (TIME, May 12, May 26). But his methods have lost him friends in the hemisphere. The left-wing regime of Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt has never recognized him; Cuban officials have denounced...
Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
...rhapsody is not the only notice the Dominican Republic has had recently in the U.S. A spate of glowing publicity pictures and handouts on Trujillo-land has been cluttering editorial desks. And as his U.S. legal representative (registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Section), Dictator Trujillo has hired onetime New Dealing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' Washington law firm (Cummings & Stanley...