Word: trujillos
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...arrived in the U.S. in 1950 and quickly gained control of more than a dozen companies, including a brokerage firm, electronics and real estate interests, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Guterma was convicted in 1960 of fraud, conspiracy and failing to register as an agent of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who gave him $750,000 to churn out propaganda in the U.S. After 3½ years in jail, he amassed a second empire in cosmetics, real estate and a Kentucky coal company...
LIVING WITH this middle-class family, it is hard to remember that Lima is under curfew after an attempted coup; that rumors of an uprising in Trujillo and the burning of the Sears building in the capital city had reached my ears this morning; and that a week ago, four tanks with rubber treads filed out of the barracks two blocks away headed for the center of Arequipa. No one talks politics at the party. As a university student who had been in Chile before, during, and after the Allende regime told me, "Politically Peru is 20 years behind Chile...
...Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo. Some CIA agents knew that Dominican dissidents, who had enjoyed U.S. support, intended to kill the despot. The Americans supplied them with three pistols and three carbines. There is "conflicting evidence" as to whether the weapons were knowingly supplied for an assassination and whether any of them were used when Trujillo was shot down...
...charges of wrongdoing by the Central Intelligence Agency, the most disturbing are those that implicate the agency in plots to assassinate foreign rulers who were deemed inimical to U.S. interests. Among the putative targets were Congolese Nationalist Leader Patrice Lumumba and Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who were assassinated in 1961; South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem, who was murdered in 1963; and Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. The allegations are being investigated by a Senate committee, which last week continued to question past and present CIA officers about the alleged plots. At TIME'S request, Charles...
...TRUJILLO. Former senior officers of the CIA maintain that neither the agency nor Presidents Eisenhower or Kennedy had anything directly to do with the dictator's death. Officials in the American embassy had tried to persuade Trujillo to resign to end the domestic unrest that the U.S. feared might make the country ripe for Communism. They had also been gingerly in touch with leaders of the political opposition and as a token of the American interest in seeing a change, had provided one faction with three rifles. A group of seven or eight men ambushed Trujillo on the road...