Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive, in fact, that CBS rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque, was kidnaped from Manhattan, spirited out of the country and apparently murdered because of his opposition to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo (TIME, April...
PLACES! exclaimed a headline on the Chicago Tribune editorial page last week. The editorial below explained that Jules Dubois, the Trib's veteran Latin America correspondent, had been permanently barred as an "agitator" from Strongman Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Reason: as chairman of the Inter-American Press Association's press freedom committee, Dubois had recommended that two Trujillo-owned dailies, El Caribe and La Nation, be expelled from the I.A.P.A., because there is no freedom of the press under Trujillo. "Mr. Dubois must consider it an honor to be denied Dominican hospitality," the Tribune applauded...
Three days later, back in Miami, Pilot Murphy, suddenly in the money, bought a $3,412 Dodge convertible for himself. The next month, he got a co-pilot's job on the Dominican Airlines, through the personal decision of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Murphy bragged that he could have "anything I want down there." He bought another car, kept up apartments in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
Under heavy U.S. pressure, the Dominicans have produced their own explanation for Murphy's disappearance. They say that another airlines pilot, a Dominican named Octavio de la Maza, "committed suicide" last month in a Ciudad Trujillo jail cell after leaving a note confessing he had knocked Murphy off a cliff into shark-infested waters. When the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ciudad Trujillo implied doubt of their story, by testing the shower pipe from which De la Maza was supposed to have hanged himself, the furious Dominicans complained to Washington...
...presumed reason for Galíndez' kidnaping: he had written a doctoral thesis condemning Trujillo, for whom he had once worked...