Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though official eulogists proclaimed that "one of his ancestors was a distinguished Spanish army officer, and another was a French marquis," Rafael Leonidas Trujillo actually was one of eleven children of an aimless, part-Negro postal clerk named José Trujillo Valdez...
Model Strongman. In the 31st year of the Era of Trujillo, Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Rebuilder of the Financial Independence of the Republic, Father of the New Fatherland, Chief Protector of the Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every...
...only thing out of keeping about Trujillo's death was the aftermath. Instead of serving as a signal for revolution to sweep down the hills into the capital, the assassination was followed by stupefied silence among his 2,900,000 subjects. General Diaz, the assassin, may have hoped in some vague way that without the strongman, the Trujillo regime would crumble. But Diaz' main motive was apparently revenge, not revolution. A favorite of Trujillo's brother Héctor, he had fallen into disgrace when some of his relatives were implicated last year in a plot against...
...grew up in grinding poverty, a wiry, vicious brawler in his sugar-cane town of San Cristóbal. Opportunity arrived with the U.S. Marines, who landed in 1916 to watch over customs collections and bond payments, and who used Trujillo as an informer and procurer of obliging ladies. Trujillo's idol was a trigger-happy captain named C. F. Merkle, whose idea of order was shooting "troublemakers." Merkle was finally arrested, and committed suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself...
...Busts of Trujillo adorned every park; plaques proclaiming that "in this house, Trujillo is boss" dangled from the wall of every shop. Along the roadside, signs proclaimed "Thank You, Trujillo," and neon beacons flashed the message "God and Trujillo." No Dominican dared oppose, or even snicker...