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![]() While Trujillo’s regime did improve poverty levels and general quality of life in the DR, it also brought a severe decrease in civil liberties and created a fascist state comparable to Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy. ![]() His administration swiftly proved to be a military dictatorship that ruthlessly punished political dissenters, scholars, Haitians, and all those who resisted Trujillo’s complete authority in the cultural, social, and economic life of the nation. Rafael Trujillo, called El Jefe, took power over the DR in 1931 through an “election” that was firmly controlled by the Dominican Army. Similar to many countries in Latin America in the 1900s, the Dominican Republic went through years of political upheaval in the process of anti-colonialism and modernization. ![]() As a story of Dominican American characters in the twentieth century, the Trujillo Era in the Dominican Republic looms large over the events of the novel. ![]()
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