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Trujillo, Rafael
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Trujillo (Molina), Rafael (Leónidas)

(born Oct. 24, 1891, San Cristóbal, Dom.Rep.—died May 30, 1961, Ciudad Trujillo, near San Cristóbal) Dictator of the Dominican Republic (1930–61). He entered the army in 1918 and rose through the ranks to become a general in 1927. In 1930 he seized power from Pres. Horacio Vásquez, and from then until his assassination he remained in absolute control of the country. Though he introduced a degree of economic modernization, its benefits were distributed inequitably, government corruption was rife, and Dominicans suffered the loss of civil and political liberties under his regime.



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Her band has Clay Giberson on piano, Elijah Copeland on bass, Rafael Trujillo on congas and Scott Jensen on trumpet.
Indeed, these executive orders were issued following embarrassing Congressional hearings in the mid-1970s, spearheaded by Senator Frank Church, which confirmed that a number of foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnam), RenE[umlaut] Schneider (Chile), among others, were executed under White House orders.
He describes how Haiti's dictator Francois Duvalier was caught in the middle while Dominican Republic dictator Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo Molina saw him as a dangerous communist.
 
 
 
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