Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dominican Republic. Since 1930, the personal plantation of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
...benefits) for all who bow down to them. In some of the Andean countries, democracy tends to be government by a majority of the white minority. Under the Honduran formula, ex-Dictator "Bucho" Carías once explained, "Personal safety is as important as personal liberty." Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, last of the oldfashioned, "monster-type" dictators, calls his regime in the Dominican Republic "freedom and democracy in the Caribbean." Said a tough U.S. businessman, hardened by 20 years in Latin lands, "When a guy says 'democracy' down here, he means any government that...
...attractive Evelyn Trujillo, 28, was a stenographer in the Caracas offices of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. After hours she had a more interesting job as an underground courier for Acción Democratica, the big left-of-center party that has been outlawed in Venezuela since the ruling military junta seized power three years...
...observer of this scene was TIME Correspondent Phil Payne, who had learned earlier of Evelyn Trujillo's predicament, and decided to cover the story of her search for asylum. The angry ambassador reported the visit of both the fugitive and the reporter to the authorities. Three days later Seguridad officials deported Payne for "mixing in internal politics...
...more amused than I was to hear that as a transit passenger on [a] Pan American flight ... I was searched in Ciudad Trujillo airport and my copy of TIME, July 30, taken away from me forcibly. I insisted on its return, calling the U.S. Embassy for help, and thus missed my plane to Curaçao. After the ruckus was over, the magazine was returned...