Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tragic coincidences are not uncommon in Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Last week Trujillo's mouthpiece, El Cáribe, reported another: the curious case of three wellborn sisters noted for their opposition to the Dictator. They were found dead near the wreckage of a Jeep at the bottom of a 150-ft. cliff on the north coast of the tight little island. Said El Cáribe: "The accident in which Driver Rufino Cruz and the sisters Patria Mirabal de Gonzáles, Minerva Mirabal de Tavárez and Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman...
There was much to the story of the three Mirabal sisters that El Cáribe did not tell. The story began with Minerva, 32, who reportedly caught the Dictator's eye some years ago when she was a pretty university student. When Trujillo tried to exercise his Dominican version of droit du seigneur, Minerva's response was a stinging slap on the face. Shortly thereafter, both Minerva and her middle-aged father were jailed, Minerva briefly, her father for two years before he was released -to die 15 days later of a combination of malnutrition, beatings...
...trials that followed, two of the husbands got 20 years, the other 30. To forestall plotting, the men were sent to widely separated prisons. Two of the sisters themselves were imprisoned briefly, then allowed to return to their family home near Salcedo, 70 miles northwest of Ciudad Trujillo. Two months ago, without explanation, all three husbands were moved to a prison near Salcedo. There, after a tantalizing delay, the wives were granted permission to make a joint visit a fortnight ago. The sisters' cars had been confiscated; gratefully they accepted a stranger's offer to ride...
...fired the peasants and workers into unprecedented rallies. The landowning aristocracy made sure the presidency went to an army colonel, who jailed Haya and issued a chilling order: "I want to see Aprista blood on every bayonet." Apristas answered with smoking pistols. At Haya's home town of Trujillo in July 1932, peasants killed 150 soldiers. The army retaliated by massacring 5,000 Apristas...
Dominican Republic. Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has had 30 years to perfect his military defenses, but he is still mortal; when he goes, by revolt or old age, the vacuum he leaves is all too likely to be filled by pro-Castro Marxists...