Word: trujillos
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...silver bullet that struck down the Emperor Jones of the Dominican Republic, but a volley of machine-gun fire. Still, like his fictional counterpart, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina will be mourned only by the relatives and friends who joined him for more than thirty years in plundering and misruling an already-poor country. Unfortunately, the power vacuum left by the Dominican dictator, coming as it does in the midst of a Caribbean Whirlpool, only adds to the quandary faced by the United States, and by all of Latin America...
...feel surprise that one of the many groups seeking the death of the dictator finally succeeded. What is surprising--and even more unfortunate--is that the assassination was carried out, not by one of the underground political groups, but apparently by a family which has long feuded with the Trujillo dynasty. Thus the killers removed the man who has held the government together, without offering a regime or government to replace...
...sure, the government established by Trujillo to administer his dictatorship seems to have the country pretty much under control, for the moment at least. Nevertheless, the political and economic structure erected over the past thirty years does not lead one to expect future stability. Like the ancient Frankish kingdoms, Trujillo's government was "despotism tempered by assassination." Intimidation and murder effectively wiped out any possibility of a meaningful "opposition," while Trujillo's demand for unqualified support and complete servility among his subjects have prevented him from grooming a successor...
...annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his neighbor, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
...said that although the M.R.P. would accept any support but Trujillo's, he would not allow the goals of his movement to be influenced by anyone who gave...