Word: trujillos
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...sound of chanting mobs, the Dominican Republic last week broke violently out of the shell of political repression that has encased it for 31 years. Shouting "Out with the Trujillos,"'.more than 8,000 students, workers and women stormed the government-owned Radio Caribe, sloshed gasoline on the floors and set it ablaze. When police arrested 25 ringleaders, the mob hurled stones. The police fired, and six demonstrators were wounded. A few hours later, street fighting broke out again when a band of Trujillo supporters carrying a huge picture of the slain dictator tried to burn the headquarters...
...Ciudad Trujillo, six weeks after Dictator Trujillo's assassination, is a far different place than it was under the tyrant who renamed it when he came to power in 1930-or so it seems. At midweek, three nervous exiles returned from Puerto Rico to test the government's much-ballyhooed "liberalization." It was their return that set off the demonstrations. To their amazement, Trujillo's heirs-the old man's son Ramfis and his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer-gave them complete freedom. At every speech and rally they were greeted by ever-larger crowds, who were...
...changes went, but they reached into every phase of national life. The Cabinet was shaken up, army officers were ordered to keep out of politics, and prices of rice, sugar, milk and meat were slashed as much as 30%. Even a few bits and pieces of the billion-dollar Trujillo fortune, such as the family's coffee and cocoa monopolies, were returned to the people. Said one diplomat who a month ago had advocated OAS intervention: "I remain skeptical. But I'm very impressed with the gestures made. I now consider genuine reform a possibility...
...superefficient police-state apparatus was not yet dismantled. At military check points, troops stopped all passing cars; and Ramfis, increasingly suspicious that the assassination was part of a large-scale plot, replaced key commanders with trusted cronies from his air force. Most of the assassins of Old Man Trujillo were either in jail or dead. And there were widespread reports that the dragnet had swept up entire households, including the servants...
...Ramfis Trujillo denied that his men were making mass arrests. "Those detained are only those closely involved in the plot," he said. But Dominicans, after 31 years of Trujillo tyranny, fear what is in store when the corps of foreign journalists and the OAS investigating team turn off the searchlight and depart...