Word: trujillos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Citizens of the Dominican Republic do not have much practice in free elections-the last one was in 1924, under the watchful eye of occupying U.S. Marines. Then came the era of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. and for 31 years the small Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti was the demesne of the dictator, his relatives and his cronies. Last week, 19 months after Trujillo's assassination, Dominicans got another try at democracy. In calm and free elections, more than 1,000,000 voters went quietly to the polls to choose a constitutional president to lead...
...largely self-educated Bosch left the Dominican Republic in 1937, disgusted with Trujillo after "The Benefactor" personally ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian squatters. With Cuba as a headquarters, Bosch organized his political party, traveled widely throughout Latin America as an unofficial emissary of the anti-Communist left...
...astonished to see your quotation from National-Zeitung's article on Trujillo's Swiss ventures [Nov. 23]. We did not say that the Trujillos brought $800 million to Switzerland but between 400 and 800 million Swiss francs, which is less than a quarter of the sum you mentioned...
Shortly after the dictator's assassination, it reports, the Trujillos deposited $35 million in the Bank of Nova Scotia under the name of three cover-up Canadian corporations: later, when the new Dominican government tried to recover the money from Canada, it was transferred to a Geneva bank. More millions poured directly into Switzerland through a network of front companies spread across the Continent. At least seven such fronts were set up in tiny, tax-haven Liechtenstein, and their funds were deposited in Swiss banks. When Swiss bankers were asked by the Dominican government not to accept Trujillo funds...
Silent Bankers. Most Swiss bankers were characteristically mum about the National-Zeitung's story, but showed no eagerness to refute it. In Madrid. Ramfis Trujillo called the story a "slanderous potpourri of half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies'' planted by a former secretary of his playboy brother Rhadames. He couldn't help feeling sorry for himself, in all his luxurious exile: "My entire life was marred and unhappy because I was the heir of Rafael Trujillo...