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

Behind the Bastards

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The Dominican Republic's Contraband Economy

Much of the economy rather than being based around like sugar plantations is cattle ranching some tobacco growing and small scale Export of wood in animal hides And Spain is not thrilled with this state of affairs because it's a lot less profitable than than Sandomaine, right? Like this kind of like all this small scale stuff is not making the sort of money that Sandomaine is making France But Spain is kind of it it's very difficult to actually govern beyond like the city of Sandomaine. The only way that Spain can keep a lid on it is by periodically massacring huge numbers of them Right like that's all you can do is you march your army into the interior and kill and burn

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