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  Ciudad Trujillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ciudad Trujillo (Spanish for "Trujillo City") was the name by which Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, was known between 1936 and 1961.
Over the ensuing years, it was rebuilt and ultimately renamed in honor of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, who was serving as president at the time.
Trujillo was assassinated in 1961, and the city returned to its original name.
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 Trujillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trujillo, Colombia, a municipality in the Valle del Cauca department.
Trujillo, Peru, the capital of the La Libertad region
Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo, a Colombian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church
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 Georgetown First-Year Academic Workshop: About the Author, Orhan Pamuk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Trujillo (Molinas) Rafael (Leonidas) was born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic in 1891 and was assassinated on May 30, 1961, in Santo Domingo, known as Ciudad Trujillo.
Trujillo was an astute and ruthless politician, a clever businessman, and a competent administrator who brought a degree of peace and prosperity to the island that it had not enjoyed in previous years.
Trujillo became an absolute ruler and protected his power although there was a great deal of pressure from the outside to liberalize his rule.
www.georgetown.edu /users/pietragh/dept/Rafael-Trujillo.html   (410 words)

  
 Trujillo - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Trujillo, city in north-west Peru, capital of La Libertad Department, inland from the Pacific Ocean.
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas (1891-1961), dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961.
Santo Domingo, formerly Ciudad Trujillo, largest city, chief seaport, and capital of the Dominican Republic, in the southern part of the country,...
au.encarta.msn.com /Trujillo.html   (85 words)

  
 Rafael Trujillo
The revolt caused the downfall of Vasquez, and the promise of free elections.
Trujillo was not only the most powerful man in the Dominican Republic from a political point of view, but also from an economic standpoint.
Trujillo was running in the election that was to be held in 1938.
www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/carib/trujillo.html   (1088 words)

  
 Trujillo Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Under Trujillo, the Dominican economy expanded, foreign debt was eliminated, the currency remained stable, and the middle class and public works projects were expanded (Haggerty, 29).
Trujillo massacred 20,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic after several members of his secret police were executed by the Haitian government for spying (Haggerty, 30).
Trujillo may have had cause to resent leaders such as Fidel Castro of Cuba, who assisted in a small invasion attempt by rebellious Dominicans in 1959, but the leader was more concerned over the Venezuelan President, Romulo Betancourt, a esteemed individual who publicly criticized Trujillo.
gbs.glenbrook.k12.il.us /Academics/gbseng2/ButterfliesAlvarez/trujillobutterflies.htm   (1064 words)

  
 Boston Globe Online: Print it!
Trujillo was the quintessential Latin American dictator, often photographed in full military dress with braid and medals.
Trujillo received generous US military and economic aid, and Washington overlooked his human-rights abuses because of his anti-Communist stance, although it is doubtful he had any ideology beyond self-enrichment.
If Trujillo's personality were the sole reason for Urania's cold anger, we would have limited sympathy for her, but as the story reaches its final moments, when we see Senator Cabral's craven betrayal of his daughter's innocence to please ''the Chief,'' we feel if anything that she has let her father off too lightly.
www.ticam.utexas.edu /~organism/random-stuff/interesting-articles/The_terrible_winter_of_TrujilloP.html   (868 words)

  
 BookRags: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Rafael Trujillo was born on Oct. 24, 1891, the son of lower-middle-class parents.
Trujillo came to the presidency as the result of a crisis during the early months of 1930.
Trujillo himself concentrated on agriculture, grazing, and industry, forcing all but one of the nation's sugar-producing firms to sell out to him, seizing vast estates from Dominican owners, and including himself as partner in virtually every industrial enterprise in the country.
www.bookrags.com /biography/rafael-leonidas-trujillo-molina   (741 words)

  
 New York Press
Trujillo manipulated a coup d’etat that ended with elections that he won through terror and ballot box stuffing.
His obsession with Trujillo’s character and career led him to write his doctoral dissertation on "The Era of Trujillo." It is a rigorously thorough, unprejudiced study of the dictatorship that discusses Trujillo’s accomplishments as well as his abuse of power and reliance on terror.
According to Bernard Diederich’s The Death of the Goat, Galindez was transferred to a CDA plane and flown to Ciudad Trujillo.
www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=5069   (1501 words)

  
 Excursions in Trujillo - Hiking Peru Tour Operator - Cusco, Peru
Near Trujillo are the nice beaches of Huanchaco, a fishing and surfing village.
Trujillo es una ciudad conocida como “la ciudad del eterna primavera” esta ciudad esta inmersa en un estilo colonial que disfruta de una preciosa costa bañada por el océano pacifico.
Trujillo es una ciudad que goza de clima calido a lo largo de las diferentes estaciones del año, lo que hace su visita placentera.
www.hikingperu.com /english/trujillo.html   (314 words)

  
 Encyclopædia Britannica Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Trujillo was capable of governing with wisdom and benevolence, but these attributes were often countered by the actions of a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republic as his personal fiefdom.
Trujillo was particularly hopeful that immigrant farmers would enhance native agriculture by demonstrating advanced methods of cultivation and animal husbandry.
Trujillo, son, is also said to have admired the diligence and accomplishments of the Japanese.
www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Project2002/JJ/japimbrit.htm   (8406 words)

  
 Rafael Trujillo: The Dominican Dicatator
Trujillo amassed a huge fortune at the expense of his people while repressing all opposition.
Trujillo ran against incumbent Horacio Vasquez for president in 1930 and fraudulently claimed ninety five percent of the vote.
Although Trujillo still had supporters in Washington, a number of people in the Eisenhower administration feared that Trujillo's iron hand was leading to a radicalization of the Dominican rebels.
www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us /classes/social_science/latin_america/dominican_Republic.html   (1682 words)

  
 Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real is a province of central Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha.
Ciudad Juárez (also known simply as Juárez) (2000 population 1,142,354) is a city in Chihuahua, Mexico, across the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) from El Paso, Texas, USA.
Ciudad Trujillo (Spanish for "Trujillo City") was the name by which Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, was temporarily known between 1936 and 1961.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/37/ciudad-real.html   (811 words)

  
 Trujillo - Venezuelatuya
Trujillo the smallest Andean State has a total area of 8624 km.
Trujillo still keeps the charm of old Spanish colonial houses, full of memories from past years.
Trujillo State is a hospitable land where the visitor can sense peace as one of the attracting features this enchanting region offers.
www.venezuelatuya.com /andes/trujilloeng.htm   (602 words)

  
 Dominican Republic - THE ERA OF TRUJILLO
The trappings of his personality cult (Santo Domingo was renamed Ciudad Trujillo under his rule), the size and architectural mediocrity of his building projects, and the level of repressive control exercised by the state all invited comparison with the style of his contemporaries, Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy.
Basically, however, Trujillo was not an ideologue, but a Dominican caudillo expanded to monstrous proportions by his absolute control of the nation's resources.
To be sure, Trujillo did have cause to resent the leaders of certain foreign nations, such as Cuba's Fidel Castro Ruz, who aided a small, abortive invasion attempt by dissident Dominicans in 1959.
countrystudies.us /dominican-republic/11.htm   (1528 words)

  
 Dominican Republic 1960-1966 KH
On the night of 30 May 1961, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, mass murderer, torturer par excellence, absolute dictator, was shot to death on a highway in the outskirts of the capital city, Ciudad Trujillo.
The decision to topple Trujillo was reinforced in early 1960 when the United States sought to organize hemispheric opposition to the Castro regime.
Balaguer had been closely tied to the Trujillo family for decades, was serving as president under Trujillo at the time of the assassination, and had remained in the same capacity under Ramfis, but he was not regarded as a threat to continue the tyranny As Kennedy put it: "Balaguer is our only tool.
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 Rafael Trujillo - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (October 24, 1891 – May 30, 1961) was the ruler of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until 1961, ruling as president (1930–1938, 1942–1952) and as essentially an unelected dictator.
Rafael Trujillo was assassinated on 30th May 1961 when his car was machine-gunned by a group of men on a quiet road outside the capital.
American diplomats met in the capital city with the Trujillo clan and Dominican military leaders and bluntly told them that US military power would, if necessary, be used to compel the formation of a provisional government headed by Joachin Balaguer until elections could be held.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php?title=Rafael_Trujillo&printable=yes   (666 words)

  
 Dominican Republic
During this time, Trujillo was completing an intensive drive, begun in the mid-1950s with the purchase of the Haina complex of sugar mills and lands in the southern part of the Republic, to expand sugar production and appropriate more and more of it to himself.
Juan Tomas Diaz, one of the principal gunmen in the plot.
Ramfis’ hand was probably stayed also by the presence of numerous foreign newsman in Ciudad Trujillo within 48 hours after the assassination, and the reported readiness of US naval and marine forces, waiting in off-shore waters, to intervene in the Dominican Republic should there be any loss of American life or property.
www.normangall.com /dominicanr_art2.htm   (1600 words)

  
 UNDCP - E/NL. 1957/127: Gaceta Oficial No. 8064, 8 December 1956 NARCOTIC DURGS REGULATIONS No. 2251
ENACTED in the Assembly Hall of the Chamber of Deputies, Palace of the National Congress, Ciudad Trujillo, National District, capital of the Dominican Republic, on 13 November 1956, in the one hundred and thirteenth year of independence, the ninety-fourth year of the Restoration and the twenty-seventh year of the era of Trujillo.
ENACTED in the Assembly Hall of the Senate, Palace of the National Congress, Ciudad Trujillo, National District, capital of the Dominican Republic, on 14 November 1956, in the one hundred and thirteenth year of independence, the ninety-fourth year of the Restoration and the twenty-seventh year of the era of Trujillo.
DONE at Ciudad Trujillo, National District, capital of the Dominican Republic, on 16 November 1956, in the one hundred and thirteenth year of independence, the ninety-fourth year of the Restoration and the twenty-seventh year of the era of Trujillo.
www.unodc.org /unodc/legal_library/do/legal_library_1957-12-10_1957-127.html   (324 words)

  
 Colloquium on Contemporary History, Seminar 2
Disenchanted with the Trujillo regime and convinced that the Dominican leader had become a political embarrassment to U.S. hemispheric policy, the successive administrations of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy worked to liberalize the political structure of the Dominican Republic.
Trujillo faced a growing internal crisis as a number of clandestine opposition groups formed and the political situation became turbulent.
Trujillo recognized that the armed forces constituted his major source of power, but also realized they represented the greatest threat to his rule.
www.history.navy.mil /colloquia/cch2b.htm   (3984 words)

  
 Wild pitches in Dominican Republic: in 1937, several Negro League legends became guns for hire in a tense baseball ...
And in 1937, Rafael Trujillo decided baseball would be the best way to win the hearts of his countrymen.
Trujillo already had tried to do that at gunpoint in 1930, when he overthrew the government.
Not to be outdone, Trujillo set his sights on the biggest star in the Negro National League--Pittsburgh Crawfords pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_33_18/ai_91475060   (950 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Beisbol y Cerveza, a Dominican Republic AAR
Trujillo invited the Pittsburgh entrepreneur to have a seat and a glass of his new Jefe beer.
Trujillo was still deciding on a sugar mill, rum factory or brewery as the year ended.
Trujillo landed on the deck of the Pirate King’s flagship and immediately engaged the lieutenant of the evil Pirate King.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=118019   (8080 words)

  
 Dominican Republic since 1945
By 1943 an important and modern airbase had been constructed in the outskirts of Ciudad Trujillo, just 20 km east of the city and tasked with handling both civilian and military operations.
This brigade was based at Base Trujillo and was constantly associated with the AMD, which led to speculations that the AMD had “armoured flying squadrons”.
Trujillo, who bragged about his ability to bomb Havana within three hours or overrun Haiti in a single day, began to loose in significance and power.
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 Dominican elections
Joaquin Balaguer, Trujillo's choice at the time of his death for President is still influential, and most recently elected President in the tainted election of 1994.
In 1936 he renames Santo Domingo "Ciudad Trujillo", and most of the streeets are renameed after his family.
Near the new harbor in the capital, where some land was reclaimed from the river: "Trujillo, Creator of this land".
www.goshen.edu /sst/dr98/dr4.html   (475 words)

  
 Xtreme Night :: Trujillo :: Discotecas :: videos :: Pubs :: en la Ciudad de Trujillo
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Evaristo, Evaristo Trujillo, La barra, la barra trujillo.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / LIFE WITH THE GENERALISSIMO
Trujillo demonstrated both his power and the extent of his intelligence operation the week after I arrived.
In this manner Trujillo prevented the assembly of persons from different cities who might be plotting to overthrow him.
Trujillo was not always lacking the grace or guile, as he demonstrated in the incident of the fifty jeeps.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1997/7/1997_7_32.shtml   (2246 words)

  
 Spanish Refugees Arrive in Trujillo Aboard the SS Cuba in 1940
Transcription of the article published in the newspaper "The Opinion", of City Trujillo (Santo Domingo), of the day Thursday 11 of January of 1940, on the occasion of the arrival to the port, of the city, of the Steam(ship) "Cuba", coming from Bordeaux, France, with Spanish refugees of the civil war.
He also said to us, talking about to the European war that is safe of the triumph of the democracies and although at the moment everything it goes with calm, probably because of the winter, they hoped that in the spring the hostilities in great scale began.
In one of the departments of the steam(ship), the medical inspector Dr. Dargán, the immigration inspector Bird Don Armando, Captain Lluveres of the National Police, the informer of the presidency Castle, the representatives of the Transatlantic French of this city and Colonel Boch.
www.igs.net /~djdelong/ss_cuba_spanish_refugees_arrive_in_trujillo_1940_articles.htm   (2518 words)

  
 Dominican Republic Information , Hotel , Travel & News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He then renamed the team "Ciudad Trujillo Dragons" after him and the city of Santo Domingo, which he had renamed already "Ciudad Trujillo" after he had taken power.
Trujillo took one look at the rival teams line up of talent and countered with Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell and Satchel Paige from the Pittsburgh, Crawford's (Pirates).
Baseball was played at its best and it would be the "Ciudad Trujillo Dragons" who would prevail and win the series, but it would come with much sacrifice for the country.
www.dominicanrepublic.com /thecountry/baseball.php   (1518 words)

  
 Santo Domingo/Ciudad Trujillo - DR1 Forums
I know many were, but none come to mind and I no longer have access to the book in which I found them.
In it I actually found that a body of water was named Bahía de Trujillo, on an antique map inside one of the covers, I thought.
At any rate I was just hoping someone might remember some of the other sites named after Trujillo during that period, especially one to do with water.
www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?p=14071   (427 words)

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