Word: trujillos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...family of political castaways, the Trujillos manage quite well for themselves. Rhadames Trujillo, 20. youngest son of the Dominican Republic's late unlamented dictator, spends his time in Madrid hanging around nightclubs and cracking up fancy sports cars. His older brother Ramfis, 33. who ruled the country for six months after his father's assassination, is a more serious type, with an ulcer. His major occupation these days is managing the loot the Trujillos carried with them when they took it on the lam from their tiny Caribbean fief...
Silent Partners. The National-Zeitung got its story from a former Trujillo official, who, having helped the Trujillos get the money out. was mad at not being cut in. The paper sat on the story for three weeks while it checked out the documents he produced to back up his story. Then the National-Zeitung published its fascinating account of how the Trujillos got their money out of the country in the months following the dictator's death...
...hope this will be a lesson to Truman," he wrote in a column that was killed by Hearst. "I wasn't shocked, I wasn't horrified, and I believe that most of those who said they were were liars." Pegler preferred the late Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo to most of the world's statesmen: "Trujillo is much more sensible, practical and helpful to his people than Roosevelt. Truman or Eisenhower has been to ours...
Glory to the Heroes. Dominicans celebrated the anniversary of Trujillo's assassination last week with horn-tooting street parades. Beside a highway outside the capital, a plaque was undraped on the spot where Trujillo died: ''Glory to the heroic liberating act of the 30th of May." Only one of the four "liberators"' was present for the ceremony: the other three triggermen all died in the aftermath at the hands of Trujillo's troops. The survivor, Council Member Antonio Imbert, 41, hid for six months in a friend's shuttered room, is still a presumed...
...party was outlawed, and APRA responded by massacring 26 soldiers in Haya's home town of Trujillo. Coldly and efficiently, the army then executed thousands of Apristas before the ruins of the nearby Inca city of Chan Chan. Driven underground, Haya continued to build his party cells and by 1945 was too powerful either to destroy or ignore. In elections that year, APRA made a deal to help elect a non-Aprista as President, and in return was given three Cabinet posts. Within three years, an APRA-hating general named Manuel Odria seized power and drove APRA underground once...