Word: trujilloland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacho was right about Costa Rica, Honduras and Trujilloland, but the other countries hastily denied any such intentions. At week's end, the Foreign Office lamely admitted that it had all been a mistake. Tacho had cabled New Year's greetings to the American republics and when Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay sent him best wishes in return, he had mistaken them for notes of recognition...
Money for the plot had been supplied by Dominican exiles and by patriots in Trujilloland itself. "General" Juan Rodriguez Garcia had put up the most cash. Until the Dictator dispossessed him two years ago, he had been the Dominican Republic's biggest rancher. Cuban officials played dumb, but that they knew about what was going on was obvious...
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...