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Part One: Rafael Trujillo: The Most Brutal Dictator of the Americas

Behind the Bastards

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Haiti's History of the French and Spanish

Haiti's history from this point is being continually fucked over by everyone else on the planet Close to it not far from it up to the present day. In Haiti, you know, they're dealing with after this period of revolution pretty continuous incursions from the French until they finally forced Napoleon to get the fuck out of there and The process of getting Napoleon out and of you know ensuring their liberty means that they build up a pretty good army Like Haiti has by kind of the late period of fighting off the French repeatedly. They've got Santo Domingo sitting on most of their island and it's a possession of Spain And Spain if you're not up on your Napoleonic history

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