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The Assassination of Rafael Trujillo
Today we'll be discussing the life and assassination of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. His reign is known as one of the bloodiest in all of the Americas (north, central, and south). He is so infamous that a Pulitzer Prize winning book Feast of The Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa was written about him. We highly recommend you check the book out.
Sources:
Newton, Michael. Famous Assassinations in World History : An Encyclopedia. Englewood: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. Accessed May 28, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central.
“‘I Shot the Cruellest Dictator in the Americas.’” BBC News, May 27, 2011. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-13560512.
Lauren H. Derby. 2009. The Dictator’s Seduction : Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press Books. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e001mww&AN=3118898&site=ehost-live.
“104-10214-10034.PDF.” Archives.gov. Accessed July 8, 2025. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10214-10034.pdf.
“Plotters against Trujillo Doubt Any C.I.A. Involvement in Assassination of Dictator (Published 1975).” The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/23/archives/plotters-against-trujillo-doubt-any-cia-involvement-in.html.
Chapman, Robert D. 2016. “Johnny Abbes and the Hunt for the Assassins.” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 29 (1): 165–69. doi:10.1080/08850607.2015.1083343.
Bishop, Marlon, and Tatiana Fernandez. “80 Years on, Dominicans and Haitians Revisit Painful Memories of Parsley Massacre.” NPR, October 7, 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/07/555871670/80-years-on-dominicans-and-haitians-revisit-painful-memories-of-parsley-massacre.
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By Megan Tobias, Trevor Tobias, and JasonToday we'll be discussing the life and assassination of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. His reign is known as one of the bloodiest in all of the Americas (north, central, and south). He is so infamous that a Pulitzer Prize winning book Feast of The Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa was written about him. We highly recommend you check the book out.
Sources:
Newton, Michael. Famous Assassinations in World History : An Encyclopedia. Englewood: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. Accessed May 28, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central.
“‘I Shot the Cruellest Dictator in the Americas.’” BBC News, May 27, 2011. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-13560512.
Lauren H. Derby. 2009. The Dictator’s Seduction : Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press Books. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e001mww&AN=3118898&site=ehost-live.
“104-10214-10034.PDF.” Archives.gov. Accessed July 8, 2025. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10214-10034.pdf.
“Plotters against Trujillo Doubt Any C.I.A. Involvement in Assassination of Dictator (Published 1975).” The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/23/archives/plotters-against-trujillo-doubt-any-cia-involvement-in.html.
Chapman, Robert D. 2016. “Johnny Abbes and the Hunt for the Assassins.” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 29 (1): 165–69. doi:10.1080/08850607.2015.1083343.
Bishop, Marlon, and Tatiana Fernandez. “80 Years on, Dominicans and Haitians Revisit Painful Memories of Parsley Massacre.” NPR, October 7, 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/07/555871670/80-years-on-dominicans-and-haitians-revisit-painful-memories-of-parsley-massacre.