Rafael Trujillo

In Junot Diaz's book called “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, the book is mainly about the life of a man named “Oscar Wao” in which gender plays an important role in society and also highlights the significance of the comparisons between the genders. Throughout the book, men's roles in society are represented as controlling and dominating due to their expected role of being the protectors and providers of their family. The main character of the book named “Oscar Wao” is a man that has…

A term that is widely used by many people in the world today, but is highly inaccurate, is the phrase “Caribbean/Latin Music”. The Caribbean is a large part of the world with many island nations within it, and within these island nations there are even more music genres. When someone says “Caribbean Music,” it is impossible to tell if they are talking about Merengue from the Dominican Republic, Ska from Jamaica, Salsa from Cuba, Reggaeton from Puerto Rico, or the many other types of music genres…

In literature, a literary device known as symbolism is used to convey an idea about a subject, person, or place. In the works of Amy Tan and Julia Alvarez, symbolism is influential throughout their stories. The story of ¡Yo! is a great example of how well Alvarez converts the symbol of a haunting folklore to a real-life terror. Although the story of ¡Yo! takes place in the United States, it tells the story of a family that escapes from The Dominican Republic during the time of a terrifying wave…

Parsley Massacre. In the late 1930s was a genocidal massacre against the Haitian population living in the borderlands of the Dominican Republic with Haiti at the direct order of Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. How the person pronounced the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) determined their fate. Trujillo used the massacre as the starting point of his policy to secure, develop, and transform the Dominican borderlands into a national showcase. They created a national identity that defined…

Fidel Castro really started to enjoy social justice in 1947. In that same year he went to the Dominican Republic and along with a group of people he tried to overthrow Rafael Trujillo from his dictatorship (Biography.com Editors 5). After Fidel’s failed attempt to kick Rafael Trujillo off his dictatorship, Fidel joined the Partido Ortodoxo group at the university in Havana (Biography.com Editors 6). The Partido Ortodoxo was an anticommunist political party. The party wanted…

written to destroy the horrible luck and the perpetuated tragedy that had sustained itself through the history of the de León family and pretty much the Dominican Republic as a whole. It was written in hope of setting the Dominican people free of Trujillo and fukú, but was it successful? Like Diaz, the author, had written before: “The only answer I can give you is the least satisfying: you'll have to decide for yourself.”(243) But whether you believe or not, fukú will always believe in…

1937. The president Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered the decapitation of millions of Haitians and Dominican Haitian decedents who could not pronounce the word perejil (parsley) correctly. It earned the name the Parsley Massacre because Dominican soldiers carried a sprig of parsley and used it to…

On his way to conquer the New World, Columbus first settled here in the island previously known as Quisqueva, Bohia and Ayti, then the Spanish named it Hispaniola. The original inhabitants called Tainos were annihilated as African slaves were delivered here with special purposes. Santo Domingo, the capital was the city at the very heart of the Spanish Empire in the New World. In 1967 Spanish ceded to France the present Republic of Haiti and the part that continued to be a Spanish colony turned…

between 1861 and 1865. Over time the country gradually became incorporated into the US sphere of influence who occupied the country from 1916 to 1924. From 1930 to 1961 the Dominican Republic was under the rule of the brutal, US-backed dictator Rafael Trujillo, who was assassinated in 1961, prompted a period of instability in which in 1963 the popularly elected leftist President Juan Bosch was overthrown in a military coup and in 1965 US Marines deployed to prevent his return.…

Trujillo, Dominican Republic’s infrastructure was crumbling, due to neglect, and under investment. After the dictatorship in 1960, the infrastructures in the country has grown, the government invested greatly roads, docks, airports, and any infrastructure…