Cover: Rafael L. Trujillo: Dictatorship and U.S. - Dominican Relations, 1904-1961, 1st Edition by Luis Martinez-Fernandez

Rafael L. Trujillo: Dictatorship and U.S. - Dominican Relations, 1904-1961

First  Edition©2022  Luis Martinez-Fernandez

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Table of Contents

Central Question

Learning Objective

Historical Background

Timeline

PRIMARY SOURCES

Rafael L. Trujillo, Letter to the Commander of the Dominican National Guard, 1918

Two Testimonies from Survivors of the 1937 Massacre of Haitians

Collection and Application of Custom Revenues (also known as the Trujillo-Hull Treaty), 1940

Joaquín Balaguer, "God and Trujillo: A Realistic Interpretation of Dominican History," 1955

Law 4280, Penalizing the Falsification of Historical Truth, 1955

Metal Door Plaque of Trujillo, 1955

Telegram from the U.S. Consulate General in the Dominican Republic to the U.S. Department of State, 1961

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