Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican Republic's new dictator, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, was proving himself more adroit than anyone had expected. Judging-perhaps correctly-that a full-scale blood bath to avenge his assassinated father might bring the U.S. Marines pounding into Ciudad Trujillo, Ramfis was even willing to let the Organization of American States send in a team of investigators to see how well he was behaving...
...pressure of the U.S. and Latin American nations hardened against him, Trujillo last year mischievously began a defiant courtship with Moscow. He let leftists take over a radio station and a newspaper, sent emissaries behind...
...vacuum there will be. After years of autocracy, the Dominican Republic was a stunned place. Thousands of Dominicans, many of them wailing hysterically, tried to jam into the tiny crypt of the church in San Cristóbal, where Trujillo's closed coffin was laid to rest. Ramfis ordered them out, then, with eyes blazing, vowed at his father's tomb to kill every one of the opposition. After the funeral, 1,000 suspected opponents of the regime were rounded up. Diaz' son was reported killed, and his wife held for torture; the government announced the death...
Into the Vacuum. In one sense, Trujillo's death had cleared the air. Many Latin American nations had been unwilling to move against Castro so long as Trujillo's longer-lasting dictatorship continued unchecked and uncondemned. But in the chaotic aftermath, there was danger of a bloodbath instituted by Trujillo's unproved heirs, or the counterdanger of a revolt in which a Castro might emerge triumphant. Washington sounded out members of the Organization of American States on the possibility of joint action to maintain order inside the Dominican Republic, got firm assent from key nations...
Died. Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, dictator of the Dominican Republic since 1930; by an assassin's bullet; near Ciudad Trujillo (see THE HEMISPHERE...