Word: trujillos
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...grey, early morning of June 2, a truck was found smashed and burning in a ravine at El Número, on the coastal highway south of Ciudad Trujillo. Twisted in the gasoline-soaked wreckage were the bodies of six people. The wreck was listed as an accident by the Dominican government, and no details concerning an investigation were ever released...
...again. The president of the Seville Royal Academy of Belles Lettres announced that he had "historical proof" that bones newly discovered in a Carthusian monastery were those of Christopher Columbus. The announcement was received with cold disbelief by the custodians of Columbus' white marble mausoleum in Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, which claims to have the remains of the discoverer...
Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was plainly reaching for political respectability. Clad in diplomatic cutaway, silk tie and striped trousers, he had clinked champagne glasses earlier this month with Warren R. Austin, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, during Austin's Caribbean tour. Before Austin left the Dominican Republic, the 400-year-old University of Santo Domingo gave him an honorary degree...
...Trujillo argued persuasively that all the trouble in his part of the world was due to the tireless intrigues of Dominican, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan exiles, plotting with the Cuban, Guatemalan, Haitian, Costa Rican and Mexican governments to oust...
Last week, with the Peace Commission back in Washington, President Trujillo asked his Congress to revoke the extraordinary power granted him last December to declare war on his own responsibility. Thus, with deft timing, he moved to recall an act which had provoked even more criticism than his alleged part in the Haitian plot. Thus the wily dictator also washed his hands in public and waited hopefully for an amiable whitewash at the hands of the Peace Commission...