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

Behind the Bastards

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Trujillo's Idea of Stability

Trujillo is trying to set up this idea that if you are like the peasants, you come to me when you need something, right? Like Trujillo's got your back. And obviously as a result, you back me no matter what I do, right? Because I'm your Godfather. So it is not hard to see why Trujillo was initially very popular with the poor and he does a good job at building stability. With stability, people are able,. merchants hadn't really been able to keep like, stock in stores in a lot of the country because of how bad the banditry was. Now they're able to do that. People are able to

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