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Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (/ t r uː ˈ h iː j oʊ / troo-HEE-yoh, Spanish: [rafaˈel leˈoniðas tɾuˈxiʝo moˈlina]; 24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe (Spanish: [el ˈxefe]; meaning the boss), was a Dominican military officer and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. [2]
The Massacre of Trujillo (Spanish: Masacre de Trujillo) was a series of murders perpetrated between 1988 and 1994 in the town of Trujillo, Valle del Cauca Department in southwestern Colombia by paramilitaries and the Cali Cartel with the complicity of active members of the Colombian military and police.
The story of the revolutionaries and their personal motivations for participating in the assassination of Trujillo, serves to writers as Mario Vargas Llosa, as examples of the experiences with atrocities of the general population suffered during the Trujillo's regime. The reasons for Amado García's actions against Trujillo were:
Even though the regime was severely weakened due to Trujillo's assassination, for the most part it remained alive, thanks to the strong hand of Ramfis Trujillo (who was in Paris by the time his father was killed, but was swift in returning home, taking power and launching a manhunt for the assassins) and the support of the army.
María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary. She was the third of the Mirabal sisters, [1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime.
Griselda Blanco’s four sons — Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo Trujillo-Blanco, and the youngest, Michael Corleone Blanco — also figure prominently into the series, especially the ending.
Rafael Trujillo: President of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic: Reported by the Church Committee. [1] Ngo Dinh Diem: President of South Vietnam South Vietnam: Reported by the Church Committee. [1] René Schneider: Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army Chile: Reported by the Church Committee. [1] Sukarno: President of Indonesia Indonesia
Not long after Laura Trujillo’s mom took her own life at the age of 66 by jumping from the edge of the Grand Canyon, Trujillo contemplated dying in the same way.