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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 movement was created in support, and then in honor, of the Dominican rebels who were killed while attempting to overthrow the Rafael Trujillo regime. [15] Everyone in the family, including Patria's teenaged children, helped distribute pamphlets about the many people whom Trujillo had killed, and obtained materials for guns and bombs to use ...
Murder victims depicted in the Bible. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. Absalom (14 P) C. Cain and Abel (1 C, 18 P) J.
The Feast of the Goat (Spanish: La Fiesta del Chivo) is a 2000 novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately after the assassination itself, in May 1961; and ...
Nov. 7—A Santa Fe jury convicted 17-year-old Judah Trujillo of first-degree murder Tuesday afternoon in the shooting death of Samuel Cordero at a local park where the two had met early one ...
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:
A son who held his parent's alleged murderer at gunpoint is opening up about his final moments with his mother and father. T.D. Gribble recalled how he embraced his mom Paula, 76, and kissed the ...