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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 Parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; [5] Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing" [6]) (French: Massacre du Persil; Spanish: Masacre del Perejil; Haitian Creole: Masak nan Pèsil) was a mass killing of Haitians living in illegal settlements [7] and occupied land in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region in October 1937.
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.
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 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 ...
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.