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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]
Angelita Trujillo was born María de los Ángeles del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Trujillo Martínez on June 10, 1939 in the affluent Parisien suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Daughter of the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo and his third wife María de los Ángeles Martínez y Alba, known as la Españolita because of her Spanish ...
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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.
Ramfis Bridge, named in honor of not yet 5-year-old Ramfis Trujillo. Ramfis was born in 1929, his mother was María de los Angeles Martínez Alba, nicknamed La Españolita "the little Spaniard" as her parents were from Spain. [1] By the age 14, his father Rafael Trujillo had made him a colonel, with equivalent pay and
Isabel Mayer (1885-1961) was a Dominican feminist, politician and socialite from the province of Monte Cristi in the Northwest of the Dominican Republic.She was a member of the feminist group Acción Feminista Dominicana (AFD) that helped secure suffrage for women in the Dominican Republic in 1942 under dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Now, a PBS documentary premiering Tuesday will show how bestselling author Julia Alvarez, who was born in New York and lived the first 10 years of her life in the Dominican Republic, became one of ...
Domínguez-Trujillo is known for being the grandson of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961. He is the son of Trujillo's daughter, Angelita Trujillo and Luis José Domínguez Taveras, a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Dominican Air Force.