On November 25 it was declared the International Day of the Elimination of the Violence against the Woman. The date was chosen as commemoration of the brutal murder in 1960 Dominican Republic effected on order of the dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961) of three Mirabal sister : Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa. Political activists of the Dominican Republic.
The given information of the fact was the following one:
" In an accident that is presumed it happened when the driver lost the control of the vehicle plate J-19488, and fell approximately 50 meters, stopping in the margen of the river Guazumal ".
The reality was that those ladies were eliminated to blows and sticks.
This vile murder was the drop that fill the glass of the Dictatorship Trujillista, the blindness created by the disinformation, the promotion of the worship to the personality of the tyrant who was subduing the psychology of the people and the terror imposed by his regime, began to weakening before this ignominy .
Trujillo was - finally! - executed convict to shots the night of May 30 of l961
" What if it will be thousand times slave
Some others to be free will know ".
MONUMENT GIVES THE HEROES OF 30 TO MAY.
Silvano Lora
After beheaded the dictatorship started organizing the country, then in June, 1962 realize the judgment for the vile murder of the sisters Mirabal and the chauffeur Rufino de la Cruz.
Santana, Viterbo Alvarez (Pechito), Pedro Peña Ortiz and David Olivero ".
The majority of those crminls were condemned to 30 years of prison, to exception inexplicably of Ciriaco de la Rosa that they gave to him 20. Short time after this, with the help of military groups Trujillistas they were provided passports and extracted with the country.
" Many of them have died in different circumstances, somes are alive enjoying the impunity that allowed them the official complicity and a village with anxieties of freedom and sometimes a bit forgetful " .Arq. Raffi Genao
SOME HISTORIES OF TRUJILLO
Trujillo was accused of rustler, rapist and other crimes
The first murder of the Age of Trujillo in the year 1930, happened in Sosúa, Puerto Plata ; he was the farmer Jose Joaquín Pelegrín (a) Culula.
Trujillo made kill Martinez Reyna and his pregnant wife.
With posteriority to Cipriano Bencosme's death for orders of Trujillo in 1930, several members of his family were murdered, between them Sergio in 1935 in New York, afterwards Toribio and Donato Bencosme.
In 1931 Trujillo arranged the murder of the senator Desiderio Arias. On the same night of the crime it presented itself at the house of the deceased and, sat close to the coffin, guarded until the following morning when it delivered a judgment three days of national duel. “He was an assassin without borders ” . Ciro Bianchi Ross
On September 28, 1937 in the morning Began in the south of Dajabon the extermination of the Haitian residents, they were killing them with knives, sticks and machetes with the intention of which it was looking like a riot carried out by peasants dominicanos. yhis execution expanding from October 2. Between 12,000 and 25,000 Haitian natives they were murdered in this slaughter, the numbers are not exact due to the climate of preponderant speculation in this time ... the Haitians' slaughter I continue until November 15 of diminished and sporadic form " Wanda Andujar .
IN THE EARTHQUAKE OF 46
Two gentlemen very known by his militancy antitrujillista, were detained and accused by the Police of having been those who spread the rumors of which the sea was entering the capital. Both were condemned to six months of correctional prison " by vagabonds and for altering the public peace ".
Jesus de la Rosa.
Between the dead men of Luperón's invasion in 1949 they were:
Gugu "Dominican" Henríquez
"Dominican" Hugo Kunhart
"Dominican" Salvador Reyes Valdez
Manuel Calderón Salcedo "Nicaragua"
Alejandro Celva "Nicaragua"
Humberto Ramirez "Nicaragua"
Alfonso Leyton "Costa Rica"
On December 8, 1950, agents concealed to Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's service appeared in house number 8 of the street Cervantes, in the Sevillian distribution in the Havana Cuba, kidnapped Mauricio Baez, and nevermore one turned him to see
Andrew Requena disappear mysteriously in New York in 1952
On March 12, 1956 I never kidnap on order of Trujillo Jesus de Galindez, never was appear Jose Almoina, author of the work " Una Satrapía in the Carib " the one who was "knocked down" by a car in Mexico in 1957 Exclaiming on having died: " It Was Trujillo ".
After suffering the most cruel and unimaginable tortures. More than two hundred was shot in the jail "la 40" after the invasion of June 14, 1959
Between 29 and on January 30, 1960 there were murdered 27 youngsters who were coming from the neighborhoods of Barrio Nuevo, Marilópez, Nibaje and the Alley of San Jose of Santiago. His leader, Wenceslao Guillén faced the tortures and the death
Today, forty seven years later, many mothers do not know where are the tombs of his children. Because no one knows where the mortal remains rest of: Wenceslao Guillén.Luis Prud Home- El Haitianito.Pedro Jaime Tineo Tejada.Jorge Marín.Henry Stresse Cepeda- El Alemán.José Emilio Soriano- Chepe.Porfirio Gómez.Manuel Medina.Ramón Mejía.Manuel Ramón Liviano- El Chino-.Napoleón Sánchez Cabreja.Manolito González.Victor González Pardi.Miguel Ramírez.Roque Peña.José Camilo Disla.Jorge Khoury.Guarino Jiminián.Manuel Antonio Arias Villamán – El Locutor.Anastasio Sudi Díaz - Millan-Domingo Russo.Eugenio Perdomo Ramírez". Wrote by Ramon Antonio Veras .
On June 24, 1960 was the attempt arranged by Trujillo against the president of Venezuela Romulo Betancourt, this one " went out of the flames of his vehicle with the face and the hands injured by the fire, Seemed the explotion of 100 kilos of dynamite, overturned and inflamed the car that was going ahead and that of the same Betancourt, in this ocasion be dead the colonel Ramon Armas Perez, chief of the Military House, another official and the chauffeur of the President "
" The criminal action prepared by Johnny Abbes García, executed with a bomb of high place explosive was able driven by microwave, placed in a car parked in a street " J.Armando Lora.
On November 25, 1960 happened the brutal murder of the sisters Mirabal, ordered by the tyrant the Dominicans began to weakening before this ignominy .
DIED THE DOG END THE ANGER
Two groups were conspiring to eliminate the tyranny. The Santo Domingo group led by Juan Tomás and Modesto Díaz and the Moca group for Antonio de la Maza. The conspiracy must be executed in two parts :The elimination of Trujillo and then the Coup d'état to hold an election free.
THE HEROES OF 30 MAY
Antonio de la Maza, Salvador Estrella Sadhala, Huascar Tejeda, Roberto Pastoriza, Antonio Imbert Barreras, Pedro Livio Cedeño, Amado Garcia Guerrero, Juan Tomas Diaz, Luis Amiama Tio, Miguel Angel Baez Diaz and Modesto Diaz
This group of brave were the heroes of May 30 .The first eight mentioned ones were the group of action that made a protagonist paper and courage in the act in front of the Santo Domingo, see facing shots the strongly man of the country .Other four were the tactical ones and stewards of follow-up to the conspiracy.
It is necessary to emphasize Tunti Cáceres as part of the group of action, who was steering wheel in the simulations before the fact, for fortuitous reasons of the destination this night it was in Moca town and went to bed to sleeping early to be resting, they all were thinking that the day after the fact was the awaited date, but On May 30 it was when the universe was flowing in order that the tyrant was executed and this way it was given beginning to the beginning of the freedom and the democracy in Dominican Republic.
To achieve this under the regime of terror that one was living in the country was a real exploit, which would not have been executed but it had been with the contest and the collaboration of many men and women who worked after flies after which the plan of the conspiracy of Of the Mace and Juan Tomas Díaz was elaborated ,that’s the case of Angel Severo Cabral , Manuel de Ovin Filpo ,Miguel Angel Bissie etc.
SOME DETAILS ON THE REGIME OF THE DICTATOR TRUJILLO
" His megalomania is proverbial. In the epoch of the celebration of 440 years of foundation of the capital, Santo Domingo the most ancient city of America, baptized this way by Bartolomé Colón, the Generalissimo decided to change the name into that of Trujillo city. Name that survived, from January, 1936, during the following quarter of century. Similar luck traversed the highest mountain of the island, known since then as Beak Trujillo.
In the city arrogant 1.217 statues of Trujillo, molded and fused in all kinds of noble materials, and in everything imaginables positions: astride, with toga, pedestrian, heroic. In every Dominican home, a plate prays: In this house, Trujillo is the chief " The tiempo.com
" Named seven years after age colonel of the army, Ramfis Trujillo Martinez (trujillo`s son) turned to the ten in general, reaching during the Fair of the Peace and the Confraternity of the World Frees the degree of general lieutenant ". Another holiday of the goat .Luis Morillo Vilchez.
" Any article, speech or conference, even if it is in the University, has to begin there with the flushed praise for the Benefactor, and sigh! Of the one that like that does not do it, because his name will be added soon to the black list ". And not only it is required that it is said that everything is his work and grace to he, but already even the God's works it has seized. There are eloquent signs that they say: " Trujillo is the only one that gives you water ". Up to there there comes his sick zeal to get hold of the foreign thing.. "
" Any employment for insignificant that is, him has to be requested directly for letter "
" To imprison, to throb up to bathing it in blood; to torture up to the death; to kill for the back, they are so current things in the dictatorship of Trujillo, as the exit or putting of the Sun "
" Often they kill someone to shots or cut the head and then, are so cynical that the orifices of the shots stop up him with cotton and sew the head, and order him the corpse to the family, him informing that he died of fever in the hospital: since it happened in case of the Colonel Blanco (Blanquito) "
Book I accuse 1946 of Carmita Landestoy
The control of the "Chief" was absolute, any suspect of conspiracy or perfidy could finish of guest of " 40 ", " 9 " [12] or victim of the cruellest treatments in the mental hospital of the Km 28. Some were managing to survive the tortures designed by Johnny Abbes [13] and his followers, that not, they were thrown to the sharks in the surrounding areas of the slaughter house of beasts of the Highway Sanchez. Nobody seemed to escape to the inquisitive look of the Chief, who was supporting his regime of " order and peace " across a spies' impressive network that the movements were controlling of all: the bootblack, the neighbor or the companion of work could be paid for Chapita's (nickname of Trujillo)hosts [14].
The dread was receiving unusual, like that forms during the stay of a group of anarchistic exiles in the agricultural colonies of the province of San Juan of the Maguana, the peasants alert the Spanish of the dangers that it contains to speak about Trujillo. It is not hour of the day, not even site that escapes to his control, when the network of caliés (Trujillo spys)[15] stops working, the supernatural power come in his aid, since the Chief during the nights " gives the orders the witches " to listen to the conversations. [16]
Every day the people were waiting with it longs for the newspaper to check shakily the section of " The Public Forum ", column that was leaking the discomfort of Trujillo destroying reputations and condemning to the ostracism those that they were falling of his grace and there were happening to increase the baneful list of the "ill-wills" [17] .Trujillo Myth and emblematic of a dictatorship. Paola Torres of the Cross .Trujillo is simply Trujillo or better the chief .J.Castellanos.
Regularly the military patrols who were crossing the city were demanding the citizens " three blows ":
• The bond of personal identification.
• The paper of certification of having done the military obligatory service.
• The member's season-ticket of the PD,( Dominican party, the party of Trujillo) known popularly as " the palmita ".
The one who did not have these three documents could be accused of crime of vagrancy
" There knew you that Trujillo, that piece of illiterate, he was nominated an honorary doctorate recipient by Pittsburgh's University? The most curious thing is that the bribes that the title paid to obtain were extracted by it of a few special funds that the North American Jews had given him in order that Nazi was receiving European fugitive Jews of the terror ", Manuel Vázquez Montalbán denounces in Galíndez, where the kidnapping reports .Dynasty of Trujillo
An order of the Dictator existed Trujillo of demanding that in all the Dominican houses they had the cartel that he was saying: " In this house Trujillo is the chief "
The Dominicans that we were born between 1930 and 1961 we were born in The Age. That we were born in Age learned from the cradle to speak little and to keep silent about everything. That we were born in The Age we knew for osmosis that we were living in the terror. We knew it though nobody was explaining it to us. That we were born in The Age we remember times so pleasant that they had to be a myth. And this way it was Under this deceitful tranquility there was a riot of horrors and dread that was misting everything. And nonetheless we live through a golden childhood... THIS ONE IS THE SITE TO REMEMBER
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