Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which they control two-thirds, into other corporations, which they own wholly. The money was profit from trucking rock salt for New York City, which recently disqualified the Popes as rock salt suppliers. The state charged that the Popes, who bought much of their salt from Dominican Dictator Trujillo, provided inferior salt and sometimes overcharged the city...
...Latin Americans have long urged the U.S. to be as ready to deplore rightist dictatorships as leftist ones. Kennedy last week hoped impartially that the victims of Castro and Trujillo, "the people of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, will soon rejoin the society of free men." ¶ Latin Americans have as keen an ear as anyone else for a catchy slogan. Kennedy gave them one: "Progreso, Si! Tirania, No! [Progress, Yes! Tyranny, No!]." Time to Mobilize. Through both of Kennedy's messages ran the insistent theme that U.S. aid must be accompanied by self-help on the part...
Since the day 14 months ago when they signed a pastoral letter calling for "freedom of conscience, press and assembly," Dictator Rafael Trujillo has spared no effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal threats and public incitement against the church, the Dominican bishops informed Trujillo that they wished "to continue cooperating." As a token of capitulation, the dictator demanded the title "Benefactor of the Church," a distinction last conferred on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...
...Trujillo put on a big campaign for the honor, including parades, a flood of letters to the editors of his controlled press, and large donations to church projects. At least one of the bishops wanted to compromise, but in the end all five agreed to hold out. In a letter whose text was suppressed for more than two weeks, they wrote: "It is beyond our powers to grant or support the proposal, because the Holy See reserves to itself the right to grant such titles." They concluded with an artful sentence that Trujillo was free to construe as he pleased...
...Trujillo's stooge government also sent the bishops a letter containing his bill for ending the persecution: "The circumstances are propitious for you to support the initiative to grant to his Excellency the title of BENEFACTOR OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH." The title was last granted to Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...