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

Behind the Bastards

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The Creative Way to Terrorize an Entire Population

Trujillo keeps his staff with him late at night at social events. He doesn't really seem to get hung over. When he's finally killed, Trujillo takes his corpse and he parades it through the towns where this guy had been popular. "I feel like if you lock yourself into murdering a specific person and then making people dance with their corpse, then you're just kind of like that's like styming, right? You got to be let the world kind of, you know, I know who Robert would pick"

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