Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Stenio Vincent, a poet-nationalist elected on an oust-the-U.S. platform when the Marines supervised an honest election in 1930, picked Lieut. Magloire for his aide-de-camp. But Vincent's government stumbled in 1937, when the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, in a moment of rage, let his forces massacre an estimated 15,000 Haitian cane-cutters who had crossed the border to seek harvest work. The Haitian President settled for an indemnity of $550,000 from Trujillo. With murdered Haitians thus officially priced at $37 each, Haiti soured on Vincent...
Tableau in the Palace. President Lescot was snobbishly antiblack, and word got around that he had accepted favors, up to & including a $35,000 gift from the hated neighbor. Dictator Trujillo. One day early in 1946, blacks appeared in the streets carrying signs "A bastesmulatres!" Stores hastily shuttered their windows and women in the hills refused to come to town with food for the market...
...imports should stay steady at the recent level of $80-$100 million yearly. Since most government revenue comes from import-and-export duties, the budget is likely to remain at around $26 million (v. $8,400,000 ten years ago). CJ Magloire has been able to get along with Trujillo on a general-to-general basis that lets ill-armed Haiti keep its selfrespect before its excessively well-armed neighbor, although there is virtually no trade across the border...
...people, too, are clean and laundered. There is a spirit and appearance of happiness and friendliness unlike any that I have ever seen anywhere else . . . [At one party] Trujillo and his brother, who is now President of the Republic, Trujillo's son, who is a general, and numerous other members of the family were up and down the board and I hadn't seen so much gold braid and stuff since the lying-in-state of George V. But why shouldn't they put on some dog? They have a flair for it, and the Court...
...Trujillo's wage level is low, but he is raising it ... and anyway these people have simpler needs than ours and hardly have any of our expensive foibles such as boozing and gambling and 'entertainment.' [Trujillo] is constantly quoted . . . and is almost invariably referred to as the Generalissimo . . . That, however, is only a native foible at worst and there is absolutely no doubt that he is a benefactor of the republic...