But there was no complaint from the Dominican crowds which lined Ciudad Trujillo's waterfront shouting, `` Vive Yankees ''!!

Vincent dismissed Calixte as commander and sent him abroad, where he eventually accepted a commission in the Dominican military as a reward for his efforts while on Trujillo's payroll.

While serving as Haitian ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Lescot fell under the sway of Trujillo's influence and wealth.

As the OAS continued economic sanctions imposed on the Dominican Republic for Trujillo's attempted murder of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, Ramfis warned that the country could descend into civil war between left and right.

On August 16, 1931, the first anniversary of his inauguration, Trujillo made the Dominican Party the nation's sole legal political party ; however, the country had effectively been a one-party state since Trujillo's swearing in.

" The Dominican Party nominated Trujillo's handpicked successor, 71 year old vice-president Jacinto Peynado, with Manuel de Jesús Troncoso as his running mate.

Trujillo's rule brought the country more stability and prosperity than any living Dominican had previously known.

* In the 2007 novel Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, " Peaksville " and The Twilight Zone are mentioned in comparison with Trujillo's reign of the Dominican Republic between 1930 and 1961.

The Argentine militarist Juan Carlos Onganía, who overthrew Arturo Illia in a military putsch in 1969, as well as Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, who succeeded Onganía after another coup, had participated in the Cursillos de la Cristiandad, as did also the Dominican militarists Antonio Imbert Barrera and Elías Wessin y Wessin, chief of staff of the military and an opponent of the restoration of the 1963 Constitution after Rafael Trujillo's overthrow.

Thomas makes an informal inquiry with a friend of his on the SIS's staff, who mentions hearing a rumor from an officer stationed in the Dominican Republic at the time of President Trujillo's assassination.

While Thomas confirms that this Calthrop was in the Dominican Republic at the time of Trujillo's death, he does not feel it is enough to inform Lebel.

In 1937, Paige led several Crawfords players, including Gibson and Bell, to the Dominican Republic to play for the dictator Rafael Trujillo's team.

One of Minerva's friends was taken by Trujillo to carry his child, and was then exiled from the Dominican Republic to escape the wrath of Trujillo's wife.

In 1956 he returned to the Dominican Republic and, after Trujillo's half brother Nene introduced him to the dictator, quickly rose to power.

Dominican ex-president, and well-known writer Joaquín Balaguer ( who was one of Trujillo's closest aides ) wrote that he once ran across him in the halls of the Dominican Presidential Palace, and saw him avidly reading a book on Chinese torture methods.

After Trujillo's assassination in 1961, Abbes moved quickly to hunt down the assassins and bring Ramfis Trujillo from Paris to the Dominican Republic to step into the place of his father.

After Trujillo's assassination, Dominican society changed rapidly as processes of urbanization and migration accelerated.

Brutal oppression of actual or perceived members of any opposition was the key feature of Trujillo's rule right from the beginning in 1930 when his gang, " The 42 ", under its leader Miguel Angel Paulino, drove through the streets in their red Packard carro de la muerte ( death car ).

There is also a story by a Gerry Hemming ( leader of a group of anti-Communist soldiers of fortune who trained anti-Castro Cubans in the early 1960s ), who says that in 1963, Abbes and Trujillo's eldest son, Ramfis Trujillo, were in a meeting, in Haiti, with other unknown men for the purpose of giving money to partly finance the plot which would result in the John F. Kennedy assassination, allegedly as revenge for the supposed CIA involvement in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo.

Trujillo's dictatorship had been along conservative, right-wing lines.

In fact, it was Trujillo's money that reportedly bought most of the legislative votes that brought Lescot to power.

" Trujillo's faction became predominant in CELAM after the 1972 Sucre conference, and in the Roman Curia after the CELAM conference in Puebla, Mexico, in January 1979.

Balaguer reciprocated Trujillo's respect by spending the three decades of the Era as one of the most efficient public aides of the dictatorship, without seeming perturbed or showing the smallest gesture of disgust for the excesses and aberrations that were common at the time.

Trujillo's son, Ramfis Trujillo, initially inherited power with Balaguer as his puppet.

They initially took steps to liberalize the regime, granting some civil liberties and easing Trujillo's tight censorship of the press.

It has been estimated that Trujillo's dictatorial rule was responsible for the death of more than 50, 000 people, including 20, 000 to 30, 000 in the infamous Parsley Massacre.

Trujillo's childhood was uneventful.

Trujillo's three children with María Martínez were Rafael Leonidas Ramfis born on June 5, 1929, María de los Angeles del Sagrado Corazón de Jesus ( Angelita ), born in Paris on June 10, 1939, and Leonidas Rhadamés, born on December 1, 1942.

Two of Trujillo's brothers, Héctor and José Arismendy, held positions in his government.

Three weeks after Trujillo's ascension to the Presidency the destructive Hurricane San Zenon hit Santo Domingo and left more than 3, 000 dead.

Some cases reached international notariety such as the Galindez case and the murder of the Mirabal sisters further erodeding Trujillo's critical support by the US government and the Catholic Church.

Trujillo's tended toward a peaceful coexistence with the United States government.

By the late 1950s, opposition to Trujillo's regime was starting to build to a fever pitch.

The brutal murder on Friday, November 25, 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, Patria, María Teresa and Minerva, who opposed Trujillo's dictatorship, further increased discontent with his repressive rule.

Trujillo's " central arch " was his instinct for power.

By 1937 Trujillo's annual income was about $ 1. 5 million.

Trujillo's funeral was that of a statesman with the long procession ending in his hometown of San Cristóbal, where his body was first buried.

Another internal CIA memorandum states that an Office of Inspector General investigation into Trujillo's murder disclosed " quite extensive Agency involvement with the plotters.

Rafael Trujillo, the often blood-thirsty dictator of the Dominican Republic for 31 years, perhaps deserved his fate in an even-handed appraisal of history.

The recent history of the Dominican Republic is an almost classical study of the way in which even a professedly benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive.

The Dominican Republic could turn toward Communist-type authoritarianism as easily as toward Western freedom.

For that reason any democratic reform and effort to bring genuine representative government to the Dominican Republic will need the greatest sympathy and help.

If the Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U.S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship.

In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.

The southern arrows bend northward just east of the Dominican Republic before straightening out again.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Worry beads ( masbaha ) made of Dominican Republic blue amber.

Amber jewellery from Dominican Republic

* Adrián Beltré, Dominican Republic baseball player

* Restoration Day ( Dominican Republic )

* 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to " forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship " and to evacuate U. S. Army troops.

* 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8. 0 hits northern Dominican Republic.

* Alexandra Caso ( born 1987 ), Dominican Republic volleyball player

* 1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d ' état against Juan Bosch.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

About 5 % of the population is of Hispanic origin, regardless of race, primarily from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).

Costa Rica joined other Central American countries, plus the Dominican Republic, in establishing a Trade and Investment Council with the United States in March 1998.