The Rise and Fall of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic

Once the 30s come around here politics revolved very heavily around little strongmen. The best of them were able to keep areas of the interior Relatively stable and protect their peasants from banditry and unrest Depending on the book you'll hear these guys kind of referred to as either caddios Or cassiques which is an older word taken from the social order on the island in the days kind of before Columbus arrived, right? And it's kind of it kind of gets applied to these more modern figures who are they are in every since the word They're warlords right, you know small scale ones, but not that's an accurate way to look at them Now I found a lot