Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kudos for a brave, succinct July 30 report of Santo Domingo groaning under Dictator Trujillo. I was in Port-au-Prince in 1938 when I heard of the incredible butchery of innocent Haitians ... I viewed the remains of hundreds of slain men, women and children at the uncharted Haiti-Santo Domingo border...
...think it would be interesting to know what steps Dictator Trujillo took to suppress your damning sketch...
...Trujillo visited the U.S., was received, though coolly, by Franklin Roosevelt. During the visit, Trujillo's publicitymen explained that he had refused a third term out of respect for the U.S. tradition...
Monument Builder. Trujillo has put up hospitals and schools, but above all he has put up monuments to himself. Every hamlet has a statue, or at least a bust, of El Benefactor, every public building an inscription proclaiming his beneficence. "Only Trujillo cures you," says the inscription on a hospital. Hundreds of towns, streets, buildings have been renamed after Trujillo, his father, his mother, and his patron saint, Rafael. In an unequalled burst of impudence, he renamed the oldest city in the New World (founded by Bartholomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher, in 1496): Ciudad Santo Domingo became Ciudad Trujillo...
Even with such stuff to soothe him, Trujillo has found the job of a dictator wearing. Despite nonsmoking, temperance in drink and lots of expensive medical attention, he is tired. In March, he handed over the "executive power" to General Héector (El Negro) Trujillo, 42, youngest of the six Trujillo brothers. * Last week, shortly after Rafael's no-fifth-term announcement, the Dominican Party dutifully nominated Hector for President. Unless Rafael changes his mind, Hector will inevitably be elected. But Big Brother will be watching him. Sooner or later, Rafael Trujillo will probably...