Rafael Trujillo
President of the Dominican Republic (1891-1961)
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Lived 1891–1961, aged 70
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Ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years under a personality cult, backed by security forces responsible for an estimated 25,000 to over 50,000 deaths. His 1937 order to massacre up to 35,000 Haitians, cross-border assassinations, and murder of the Mirabal sisters in 1960 drew international sanctions that turned even his own military against him.
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Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina was a Dominican military officer who seized power in August 1930 and held it through figurehead presidents and his title of generalissimo until May 1961. The Trujillo Era stretched across three decades when Caribbean dictatorships flourished, but his regime stood out for its reach and violence: the state terrorism apparatus extended beyond borders to New York, Venezuela, and Mexico, hunting critics and dissidents. By 1960, the abduction of Jesús Galíndez in New York, the attempted assassination of Venezuelan president Rómulo Betancourt, and the killing of the Mi…
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