A megalomaniac with an enormous sexual appetite, Generalissimo
Trujillo, president/dictator of the Dominican Republic, expected as
a matter of course to harvest the virgin daughters of loyal
friends, although he might at any moment order a genuinely loyal
officer boiled alive and exhibited as a disgraced enemy. He ordered
20,000 black Haitians slaughtered for squatting in his country (a
Negrophobe, he had Negro blood in his veins). He owned 60% of his
country's land, and the treasury. He revamped the country and
cities into his own image, changing Santo Domingo to Ciudad
Trujillo, erecting hundreds of statues to himself - even having
neon signs in the capital blinking GOD AND TRUJILLO. On his silver
anniversary he renamed a major avenue after his buxom 16-year-old
daughter Queen Angelita I and outfitted her in an $80,000 white
satin gown with a 75-foot train of Russian ermine. He was crazy.
And on May 30, 1961 he was assassinated by the de la Maza family.
The root of his assassination grew from a murder he'd ordered four
years earlier, and in covering up that murder he'd had two more men
murdered, including young Tavito de la Maza. This slowly nudged the
wild de la Mazas into a conspiracy that is grippingly analyzed here
and which reveals the shilly-shallying of the US and the CIA - we
backed the dictator but at last supplied (then partly withdrew)
weapons with which to kill him. His murder of three highly
attractive sisters who refused his advances steeled the
conspirators' resolve ("it did something to their machismo"). But
after the killing, no coup d'etat followed. Trujillo's son Ramfis
took over and the conspirators were massacred. Straightforward and
styleless, but a strong pulse throughout. (Kirkus Reviews)
On May 30, 1961, a hail of bullets ended the life of Generalissimo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, known to his countrymen as ""The Goat""
for his many revolting excesses, after thirty-one years of brutal
rule over the Dominican Republic. This book is a riveting,
minute-by-minute account of the plot to kill Trujillo, who was then
the Western Hemisphere's most ruthless dictator, and the ferocious
wave of revenge that ensued before his regime collapsed. The book
also reveals the vacillating role of the United States - and the
CIA - in first propping up the dictator, and then supplying weapons
to slay him.
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