Before his assassination on a dark highway on 30 May 1961, the Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ruled with an iron fist for almost 30 years. Tim Mansel meets one of the men who shot him.
On November 25, 1960, dictator Rafael Trujillo asked his henchmen to ambush ... The regime came to an end in 1962, following the dictator's assassination in 1961. This historical fact shows ...
Still, like his fictional counterpart, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ... ancient Frankish kingdoms, Trujillo's government was "despotism tempered by assassination." Intimidation and ...