Word: trujillo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision may well inflame political passions among the Dominicans, who have a historic distaste for presidential re-elections. It was shaped during the brutal reign of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who was elected President in 1930 and kept on getting himself or his confederates re-elected until assassins' bullets cut him down...
Actress Danièle Gaubert was in Rome filming Camille 2,000, a futuristic version of Dumas fils' classic, and gossip columnists made the most of every rumor about her life and hard times with ex-husband, Rhadamés Trujillo. The trigger-tempered playboy son of the late Dominican dictator had held her a virtual prisoner of love at his European estates for almost five years-or so the stories went. Then the romantic legend began to falter, as Danièle missed her cue and told reporters: "It's true that my husband wanted...
...signing every visa. When he needed money for a pet hydroelectric project in the north, Balaguer not only arranged personally for $30 million in U.S. aid, but organized telethons in Santo Domingo and Santiago that raised another $385,000 from Dominicans themselves. A onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes far more fervently in democracy and the future of his country than in power for power's sake. Last week, on the eve of the municipal elections, Balaguer even referred...
...time a country doctor, Duvalier came to power in 1957, emerging as president after months of political upheaval, rioting, executions, and military rule. He modeled his regime after that of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and enforced it with his secret police, the famed Tonton Macoute...
...Nothing gets done," says Santiago Food Processor Jimmy Pastoriza, "that Balaguer does not approve personally-which means, of course, that some things do not get done." Balaguer works a twelve-hour day, then continues talking to visitors at his home. As the country's most peripatetic leader since Trujillo, he also likes to helicopter out into the countryside for chats with peasants...