Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as they would like to see the Dominican Republic's post-Trujillo government make way for democracy, U.S. policymakers feared that too abrupt a change could lead to a Castro-type takeover. They were reluctant to go along with demands by the anti-Trujillo opposition that the late dictator's heirs, led by his own son, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., be forced to give up the reins of government and clear out of the country. Last October U.S. planners thought that they had worked out a way to have democracy and Trujillos as well. Last week...
Seaborne Uncles. The U.S. labored to arrange a nonviolent transition. On the Dominican side, several members of the wealthy Trujillo family-but not Son-and-Heir Ramfis-were to go into exile. Police brutality would be curbed (though Castroite political groups would continue to be suppressed). Large chunks of the Trujillo family's land and industrial empire would be turned over to the nation. In return, the U.S. would seek the lifting of economic sanctions imposed by the Organization of American States after the late dictator was caught in a nearly successful 1960 plot to kill Venezuela...
...week began its report to the association's annual convention. Meeting in Manhattan, 250 delegates from across the hemisphere examined complaints of violation of press freedom, nation by nation. The newsmen found faint stirrings of editorial liberty in the Dominican Republic following the assassination of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. They noted the arrest and brief jailing of TIME'S Chile Correspondent Mario Planet for two stories (TIME. June 23. Aug. 25) deemed disturbing to Chile's tranquillity. Cuba, Paraguay and Haiti were listed as "countries where there is no freedom of the press"-but the most alarming...
Time may be drawing short for the Trujillo clan, still clinging grimly to the Dominican Republic. For five days last week, uncontrolled riots swept the island fief now commanded by the dictator's son and heir. Ramfis Trujillo Jr. Mobs of students swarmed off the university campus in Ciudad Trujillo, smashing statues of the dead tyrant and shouting "Viva la revolución!" One rampaging band of 400 students and sympathizers proclaimed a four-block stretch of downtown Ciudad Trujillo as "free territory." defended it with rocks and cast iron water-meter covers until 100 police drove them...
...Cruising through Caracas in June 1960, Betancourt barely escaped his old enemy Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic; Trujillo's agents parked a car loaded with high explosives along the route, triggered it by a microwave transmitter. The blast killed Betancourt's aide-de-camp, his chauffeur and a bystander and severely burned Betancourt himself-to the extent that his hands, 16 months later, are still horribly scarred and tender...