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...election (as usual), Trujillo is backed by the Dominican Party, to which everybody in his Government, everybody in his monopolies, and nearly everybody who wants to do business, has to belong. Last time (May 1942), the Benefactor ran on the other party's ticket too. This time he waved his wand, and two phony opposition parties were created...
...deputies (Trujillo holds signed resignation letters from all Dominican deputies) were put forward as their candidates. One, Rafael Espaillat, has spent the campaign digging in the garden of his little farm outside Ciudad Trujillo. The other, Francisco Plats Ramirez, recently signed a routine resolution of praise for the Benefactor. ("A typist's error," he explains.) Neither man has made a campaign speech...
Preventive Measure. In 17 years as dictator, Trujillo has broken the spirit of the 2,000,000 Dominicans (200.000 whites, 1,200,000 mulattoes, the rest Negroes). Few dare even to mention his name in public, though in whispers they call him "Beautiful Murder." Seven months ago, 60 rebel soldiers plotted to oust him. For two weeks the Government did nothing. Then the plotters were sent to outposts at Pedernales (on the Haitian border), and at the town of Loma de Cabrera. When they had taken up their new posts, the conspirators were stabbed to death, a11 at the same...
...Dominicans remember the butchering of 12,000 Haitians in 1937. But not all have heard of the speech Trujillo made afterwards in Santiago's town hall. "I faced the Haitian problem squarely," he boasted. "I went to the border and saw the thousands of Haitians on Dominican lands. I considered every way out, but I came to the conclusion that there was only one way-a general massacre...
...Today Trujillo would like to be a gentleman of ease, and loved by all, but time has infected him with the same terror he has spread. He wears a bulletproof vest, keeps his own food taster, and dines only in his own home. He arrives at diplomatic banquets after dinner is over, bringing three bottles of his own Carlos I brandy, from which the corks must be removed before his eyes, and from which he drinks only after others have drunk first...