Word: trujillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aggressors want to see their beards and brains flying like butterflies, let them approach the shores of the Dominican Republic," warned Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A pair of Cuba-based rebel invasion forces-one of 63 men arriving by C46 at the mountain-ringed, mid-island town of Constanza, and another of 150 aboard two Chris-Craft launches that landed near Puerto Plata on the north coast-put the strongman's boast to the test of arms. Last week, both by government and rebel account, Trujillo proved that he meant what he said...
Meeting a Spy. Set down at Constanza by Juan de Dios Ventura Simó, a Dominican air-force captain who purportedly defected to Trujillo's Cuba-based opponents in May, the C46 load of rebels fanned out into the hills to begin a hot running fight. Five days later, Ventura Simó, freshly decorated and newly promoted to colonel, sat down in Ciudad Trujillo at a government microphone to read a statement that he had been a spy all along, had delivered the rebels into a trap. After the broadcast he appeared at a Foreign Ministry reception...
...Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
...have just returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. My husband listed his occupation as "Radio and TV"-and nobody followed us. We saw the troops drilling, the homes of all the Trujillo relatives and the poverty. However, contrary to your report, no one fixed the slot machines or the gambling tables in our favor. As Americans we find the doctrine of dictatorship hard to take under any circumstances, but we could not help noticing that our own Puerto Rico was embroiled in a violent telephone strike, with communications cut by unthinking "free" citizens, who apparently only know...
Painted Slums. What the Dominicans do not like to talk about is the poverty. They show visitors the new housing project across the river from Ciudad Trujillo, but it is very small potatoes compared with the slums that make up the bulk of the city. The hovels are all freshly painted, generally an ocher or a sky blue or sea green, with a barn-red trim framing the doors and windows. That's the way El Benefactor wants it, and everybody paints once or twice a year. But the houses themselves are miserable one-or two-room shacks...