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Trujillo is depicted as an ultimately hyper-masculine alpha male, while remaining completely evil in the eyes of the readers. There can be parallels drawn between Trujillo’s conquest of feminine land and the arrival of “The Admiral” to the western hemisphere, “he who brought the fuku (1)”. The curse that supposedly haunted America since the arrival of the Columbus is embodied in the person of the dictator. Dictator conquest for women is now one of the many fuku that haunt DR and origin from the exploration of The Admiral. Trujillo’s legendary pursuit for women is visible in the dictator’s interest in Abelard’s daughter, Jacqueline. Trujillo is supposed to have “hundreds of spies whose entire job was to scour the provinces for his next piece

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