Rafael Trujillo

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Rafael “Rafa” Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is thought of as the greatest clay-court player in history, and because of his success on the surface, he has been titled “The King of Clay”. Nadal’s unique style of play has established him as one of the greatest players in tennis history. Rafa was born June 3, 1986 in Mallorca, Spain to Sebastián Nadal and Ana María Parera. When he was three years old, his uncle, Toni Nadal, a former professional tennis player,…

lot of the political issues that were faced during this time when Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla became president in Argentina in 1976, which influenced this story. In this story there are some ominous things…

Were Free by Julia Alvarez is about eleven-year-old Anita, who is faced with coming of age during a chaotic time where both friends and family are faced with difficult, life threatening decisions. Everyone is living under a cruel dictator named Rafael Trujillo in the 1960s in the Dominican Republic. Anita’s family has to endure hardships as they try to overthrow the dictator, which her father and uncle are in a plot trying to assassinate him. Anita’s family made sacrifices that showed…

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina reigned over the Dominican Republic in a dictatorship extending over thirty years. He is known to most who know him as having been the “most ruthless dictator in Latin America.” However, there is another side to the story. Trujillo was the third son of a humble sheep herder and worked as a sugar plantation guard in his adolescent years. He enlisted in the United States Marines Corp during the U.S.’s occupation in the Dominican Republic. He built himself up to…

shows a persistent amount of courage with the main characters. The background of In the Time of the Butterflies is mid-20th century Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and the story of the Mirabal Sisters. The Dominican Republic is ruled by a fascist dictator named Rafael Leonidas Trujillo or El Jefe, who runs and ruins everybody life who do not listen. The Mirabal Sisters were four sisters who formed a rebellion against the malevolent dictator and were killed…

The Dominican civil war began on April 24th 1965 and it served as the climax to the fight for democracy that had begun with the assassination of Trujillo in 1961. Like all powerful movements, the 1965 civil war began with the young people of the Dominican Republic. Young adults and teenagers who had lived most of their lives under a dictatorship sought to fight, even if to the death, for the end to political limitations and the fear brought forth from the old regime. They sought the birth of a…