Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this has nothing to do with us here in Colombia. But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. Perhaps the canonization of Saint Odría of Peru and Saint Trujillo of the Dominican Republic already is in the works. When the day comes that there are five or seven heavenly governments in this hemisphere, it will be the last bell for democracy...
...bright, particular friend of Spain's Franco; but weren't Spanish Falangists excluded by the act's language? Obviously they were, and presumably if any turned up they could be hustled off to Ellis Island. And what of followers of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Trujillo, or of any of the other Latin American Good Neighbors who had lived under military juntas and strong-man machines during the recent past...
...grey, early morning of June 2, a truck was found smashed and burning in a ravine at El Número, on the coastal highway south of Ciudad Trujillo. Twisted in the gasoline-soaked wreckage were the bodies of six people. The wreck was listed as an accident by the Dominican government, and no details concerning an investigation were ever released...
...story of a 21-year-old passenger who survived the wreck, escaped and talked with a member of the Ramirez family before he died in a hospital. The youth declared that Ramirez' truck had been stopped by Dominican soldiers at a road junction south of Ciudad Trujillo, on the night of June 1. When Ramirez jumped out, he was attacked with clubs, the witness said, but grabbed one away from a soldier and knocked down three men before he was riddled with bullets. Then soldiers took the seven passengers to El Numero. There they were beaten to a pulp...
Porfirio Ramirez, inactive in politics himself, was the brother of Caribbean Legion General Miguel Angel Ramirez, onetime Dominican diplomat and leader of two abortive expeditions to invade the Dominican Republic. Last spring, after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo's knuckles were rapped by the Organization of American States in a report on Caribbean plotting (TIME, March 27), the dictator invited all exiles to come home. Ramirez refused, and the exile committee said that Trujillo took his revenge on Porfirio Ramirez...