Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polite crowd of 15,000 sat through a barrage of speeches in a Ciudad Trujillo park one muggy night last week, applauding with the kind of suppressed boredom usually found at amateur theatricals. The occasion: a rally of "reaffirmation" for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In similar spirit, the Dominican Senate addressed itself to a resolution to erect two more busts of Trujillo in the capital, already so statue studded that new sites are scarce. The resolution passed...
Half-hearted is Trujillo's adulation, and half-hearted his opposition. Last week was the anniversary of the founding, in 1838. of La Trinitaria, a secret patriotic society devoted to freeing the country from Haitian occupation. In the 2Qth year of the "Era of Trujillo," Trinitaria is back in business as the anti-Trujillo underground. Three-man cells are forming. For protection against Trujillo's secret police, only one member of each cell knows the name of one member of another cell. But the underground is small and probably futile...
Middle-Class Grumbling. Opposition to Trujillo comes mostly from the middle and upper classes-about a quarter of the population of 2,800,000. "These people travel and have broader knowledge," explains a foreign resident in Ciudad Trujillo. "They hate to take orders. They live well but insecurely...
...books, the Dominicans could hope for some assistance. The invasions crushed last month by Trujillo came from Cuba, and Dominican Ambassador to the OAS Virgilio Díaz Ordóñez charged that a new, 3,000-man force was training in Cuba, backed by 25 Venezuelan warplanes. Under terms of the 1947 Rio de Janeiro treaty pledging mutual assistance against aggression, the Dominicans demanded a fact-finding mission...
Most of the OAS members were swayed not by treaty but by Trujillo's long and bloody record. "The Rio treaty is not a piece of paper at the service of dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba and Venezuela lined up enough countries to vote down the Dominicans. Ambassador Díaz Ordóñez scrambled to his feet and withdrew his motion just in time to avoid defeat...