The recent declassified CIA documents by Donald Trump include many that have to do with the assassination of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo on May 30, 1961 in Santo Domingo and the role between the CIA and many of the conspirators prior to the assassination. These documents were “secrets” until a few days ago.
Much of the information about the assassination of Trujillo has been known not from the CIA specifically but from other sources. For example, the CIA documents clearly states that the men involved in Trujillo’s assassination were not interested in freeing the DR or its people from a dictatorship. Rather, they had personal reasons or the desire of revenge. The CIA came to this conclusion after meeting with many of them before the assassination took place. Well, that was already known.
Much more interesting is what is said here in Somos Pueblo (3/21/25) regarding the assassination of the Mirabal sisters. The claim is that the killings of the Mirabal sisters wasn’t an order of Trujillo contrary to what is officially purported. Rather, it was offered by the CIA/USA in order to begin the end of the Trujillo dictatorship. Supposedly, many of the Dominicans offered to kill them refused to do it, except general Imbert Barreras who was already not on good terms with Trujillo.
10:08
If this is true, then what was a deal a few years ago when Angelita Trujillo presented her book «Trujillo: Mi padre en mis memorias» (“Trujillo: Memories of my Father”?) Among the various claims are the her father didn’t ordered the killings of the Mirabal sisters? That bothered a lot of people. In fact, her book was banned in the DR (and continue to be banned) because it’s full of “lies” such as that one.
That book may have some things that she believed them because she was Trujillo’s favorite daughter. She said many times that Trujillo was never violent to her or in front of her, instead he was very much the opposite and that’s the image she had of her father. So all the not good things said about him contrasted with the image she had of her fathered. However, everything couldn’t be of “a favorite daughter trying to clean the image of her father.” Like that her father wasn’t who killed the Mirabal sisters.
It should be noted that she didn’t went a far as to say her father didn’t killed anybody. Just very specific cases like that of the Mirabal sisters.
1:11
1:15
It should be noted that it has been said on many occasions that Trujillo himself was in shock when news of the killings of the Mirabal sisters reached him and he exclaimed «¿se volvieron locos?»
There is also what has been said of Trujillo and how he never killed women during his entire 31 years reign.
Then recently Hipólito Mejía has said on several occasions: “If there were crimes attributed to Trujillo when had nothing to do with them, imagine with anyone is?” When he has said that, he’s pointing at the fact that to this day Trujillo has been the most powerful (and feared) leader of the Dominican government, more than any president since.
Much of the information about the assassination of Trujillo has been known not from the CIA specifically but from other sources. For example, the CIA documents clearly states that the men involved in Trujillo’s assassination were not interested in freeing the DR or its people from a dictatorship. Rather, they had personal reasons or the desire of revenge. The CIA came to this conclusion after meeting with many of them before the assassination took place. Well, that was already known.
Much more interesting is what is said here in Somos Pueblo (3/21/25) regarding the assassination of the Mirabal sisters. The claim is that the killings of the Mirabal sisters wasn’t an order of Trujillo contrary to what is officially purported. Rather, it was offered by the CIA/USA in order to begin the end of the Trujillo dictatorship. Supposedly, many of the Dominicans offered to kill them refused to do it, except general Imbert Barreras who was already not on good terms with Trujillo.
10:08
If this is true, then what was a deal a few years ago when Angelita Trujillo presented her book «Trujillo: Mi padre en mis memorias» (“Trujillo: Memories of my Father”?) Among the various claims are the her father didn’t ordered the killings of the Mirabal sisters? That bothered a lot of people. In fact, her book was banned in the DR (and continue to be banned) because it’s full of “lies” such as that one.
That book may have some things that she believed them because she was Trujillo’s favorite daughter. She said many times that Trujillo was never violent to her or in front of her, instead he was very much the opposite and that’s the image she had of her father. So all the not good things said about him contrasted with the image she had of her fathered. However, everything couldn’t be of “a favorite daughter trying to clean the image of her father.” Like that her father wasn’t who killed the Mirabal sisters.
It should be noted that she didn’t went a far as to say her father didn’t killed anybody. Just very specific cases like that of the Mirabal sisters.
1:11
1:15
It should be noted that it has been said on many occasions that Trujillo himself was in shock when news of the killings of the Mirabal sisters reached him and he exclaimed «¿se volvieron locos?»
There is also what has been said of Trujillo and how he never killed women during his entire 31 years reign.
Then recently Hipólito Mejía has said on several occasions: “If there were crimes attributed to Trujillo when had nothing to do with them, imagine with anyone is?” When he has said that, he’s pointing at the fact that to this day Trujillo has been the most powerful (and feared) leader of the Dominican government, more than any president since.
