Rafael Leónidas Trujillo y Molina was born on 24 October 1891 in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, [11] into a lower-middle class family. [12] His father was José Trujillo Valdez, the son of Silveria Valdez Méndez of colonial Dominican origin and José Trujillo Monagas, a Spaniard Canary Islander sergeant who arrived in Santo Domingo as a member of the Spanish reinforcement troops during ...
Rafael Trujillo (born , San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic—died , Ciudad Trujillo [now Santo Domingo]) was the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo entered the Dominican army in 1918 and was trained by U.S. Marines during the U.S. occupation (1916–24) of the country. He rose from lieutenant to commanding colonel ...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was the third of 11 children, born to working-class parents in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, on . After receiving an elementary education, he ...
General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo came to power in 1930 and established an oppressive dictatorship in the Dominican Republic that lasted…
Despite Trujillo's personal crusade for wealth, power and self-aggrandizement, some observers have claimed that his regime did accrue material benefits to the Dominican people. To this extent his rule has been described as "enlightened"; certainly, the façade of the Dominican Republic was a striking contrast next to neighboring Haiti and Cuba. As Trujillo's obituary in the London Times ...
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Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( – ), nicknamed El Jefe (Spanish: [el ˈxefe]), was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military strongman under ...