Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Leonidas Rhadames Trujillo, 22, younger son of the Dominican Republic's slain strongman, who now spends his time hitting Europe's hotspots on the $200 million fortune the family got away with; and Daniele Gaubert, 20, French starlet and Rhadames' longtime fiancee; in Authouillet, France...
Seldom has a scholar assembled such an impressive array of quotations in which American dignitaries say the "wrong things"--or used the quotations so effectively. Shapiro quotes a statement by Senators Ellender of Louisiana and Eastland of Mississippi that "Latin America needs . . . more dictators like Trujillo." Similarly, during the 1962 Cuban crisis a Congressman declared that "for a good many years down in Latin America, on forty different occasions, American armed forces . . . moved into countries south of the border. . . . But lately we have adopted this mamby-pamby policy of attempting to turn to Latin American countries, to ask their permission...
...Dominican Republic has embarrassed the U.S. for decades. After the U.S.-encouraged assassination of Dictator Trujillo in 1961, the U.S. in 1962 ardently supported Author Juan Bosch, an exile for 24 years, in presidential elections. He won, then allowed Dominican Communists to organize openly and proved to be inept. Fed up, the Dominican army threw Bosch out, but the U.S.-with a fixed policy in favor of constitutional government even when it is bad-broke off relations with the junta. Later it got promises that there would be free elections, and relations were restored. But U.S. Ambassador John Bartlow Martin...
After his indictment as an unregistered agent for Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, he lost his job as the New York Journal American's syndicated society gossip; his wife committed suicide; and his public relations firm collapsed. Even so, ruled a Washington, D.C., judge, the law is clear, and he sentenced Igor Cassini to six months on probation, fined...
...have been running the country on behalf of the army since the ouster of President Juan Bosch last September. De los Santos wanted a conciliatory approach to the rebels, but after a series of angry arguments, he was outvoted in favor of the all-out offensive. The land of Trujillo is still a land of violent solutions...