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Trujillo Molina
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Trujillo Mo·li·na  (m-ln, -nä), Rafael Leónidas 1891-1961.
Dominican soldier and dictator who ran unopposed for president in 1930 and controlled the country until his assassination in 1961.


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Her band has Clay Giberson on piano, Elijah Copeland on bass, Rafael Trujillo on congas and Scott Jensen on trumpet.
Indeed, these executive orders were issued following embarrassing Congressional hearings in the mid-1970s, spearheaded by Senator Frank Church, which confirmed that a number of foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnam), RenE[umlaut] Schneider (Chile), among others, were executed under White House orders.
He describes how Haiti's dictator Francois Duvalier was caught in the middle while Dominican Republic dictator Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo Molina saw him as a dangerous communist.
 
 
 
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