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Johnny Abbes García (1924, Santo Domingo – 1967) was the chief of the governmental intelligence office – the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar (Military Intelligence Service) – during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. He ruled under Trujillo during the end of the Third Republic, and later served the Duvalier ...
Around 1957 the Department of State for Security, headed by General Arturo Espaillat was dissolved, replaced by SIM and its sister agency, the Servicio Central de Inteligencia (SCI). [1] Under the leadership of Johnny Abbes García , SIM employed thousands of people and was involved in immigration, passports, censorship, supervision of aliens ...
PQ8180.17.A73 O813 1976. The Autumn of the Patriarch (original Spanish title: El otoño del patriarca) is a 1975 novel by Gabriel García Márquez. A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of ...
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 ...
Women’s suffrage in Venezuela was first granted with the Constitution of 1947. [5] Women had started organising around the 1930s and 1940s with the death of dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. [6] But it was not until the 1950s that women from all social classes got involved and not only middle-class women. [7]
Las Dos Dianas. La Mujer Prohibida is a 1991 Venezuelan telenovela produced by Venevisión and Telecinco. The story was written by Manuel Muñoz Rico and adapted for the screen by Alberto Gómez. [2] The series stars Andrés García, Mayra Alejandra, Fernando Carrillo and Tatiana Capote.
Italian. En brazos de la mujer madura, loosely based on the novel In Praise of Older Women, is a 1997 Spanish coming-of-age film set during and after the Spanish Civil War. As well as recounting the amorous education of a young man, it evokes the political and social conditions of the time.
Josefina Calcano de Temeltas: [221] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Venezuela (c. 1979) Cecilia Sosa (1967): [222] First female appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela (1996-2000) Luisa Ortega Díaz: [223] First female appointed as the Prosecutor General (or Attorney General) of ...