Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Research Paper

When Vargas died in 1705 after repossessing the governorship in 1703, he was succeeded by Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdes. Governor Cuervo y Valdes campaigned for a more militant approach against the indigenous tribes, predominantly the Navajos, whose troublesome acts were thought to be influencing the Pueblos to resist the Spanish’s reoccupation. Cuervo in June 1705 launched successive offensive attacks against the Gila Apaches, coming back to the Navajos, who were stealing cattle from settlers and missionaries. Cuervo stated that the Navajos were troublesome because of the “continuous wars that they have carried on from the conquest of this kingdom [1598] until the general uprising of the year 1680 and which they have continued from

     Almagro was jealous of Pizarro’s fame and tried to take over Cuzco from Pizarro. Cuzco was the capital of the Incas. Pizarro’s brothers captured and executed Almagro and some of Almagro’s followers were still angry. They went ahead and assassinated Pizarro in the city that he founded, Lima. Francisco Pizarro died in 1541.

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was he a hero or a villain? I would say a villain. He set out to find a city of gold and riches. He soon found out that there wasn’t a city of gold. Instead he found something else. He found new villages and land, also new historical lands.

From 1930 until 1961, General Leonidas Trujillo held absolute control of the Dominican Republic. His alliance and support from the army, church, and wealthy families and also the press were the foundation of his dictatorship. His formula to remain in power was simple: murder anyone who opposed him. Therefore anyone who wanted a fair government was declared an enemy of the state. General Trujillo wanted everyone to reproduce based on color. More than 30,000 thousand people were executed and many of them were black during his regime of terror. – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (www.http://en.wikipedia.org)

When we think of a Texas hero, we think of people with important titles, like Sam Houston or Stephen F. Austin, but never once do we think about those people who gave up a pleasurable future just for us. We never think about those people like José Antonio Navarro, who never even gave a second thought to abandon Texas.

Latino’s haven’t always had it easy in America, some were luckier than others. Hector Garcia growing up was one of the lucky ones. His parents were educators but their credentials were denied. They resorted to teaching their kids inside the home. The Garcia kids were pushed by their parents to become doctors, so they could have a better future. Hector Garcia graduated from the University of Texas and did his residency in Omaha, Nebraska. Garcia volunteered as a infantry officer during world war two, but was denied to practice medicine while in the army. He was eventually able to serve as a medical corps officer before he was dismissed

    General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina ruled 31 years from 1930-1961. Trujillo was born on October 24, 1891 in San Cristobal. He grew up in a middle-class family with 10 siblings, being the third child, of Spanish, Haitian, and Dominican descent. General was taught basic primary school in houses of other parents. At the age of 25, Trujillo had a wife and a steady job. Before his first Presidential term, he was a telegraph operator and sugar plant guard. By 1919,

Ruben Salazar was born on March 3, 1928, in Ciudad Juarez, and moved to El Paso, Texas where he grew up. Ruben Salazar was a well-known journalist and activist who brought together Chicanos and Americans. He was one of the first non-white journalists in an all-white male profession and proved that he was just as capable of journalism as all of them. Salazar brought together Americans and Chicanos in many ways, he reported on Chicano events and put himself in between a very tense boundary. Salazar began as a journalist for The Los Angeles Times and became a foreign correspondent until a new more powerful Chicano movement brought him back. Salazar was the Times’ best choice to report on the movement and brought him back to Los Angeles to report

On October 24, 1891, Rafael Trujillo was born in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. He lived with his lower-middle-class parents and 10 siblings. During his childhood, Trujillo’s education consisted of schools that were held in different villagers’ homes. He was only taught basic principles in these schools. Rafael Trujillo got his first job when he was sixteen years old but subsequently lost his job after he joined a gang and committed various crimes, including forging checks. Trujillo eventually gave up his life of crime after he married his first wife, Aminta Ledesima, and they had two daughters (Biography.com).

In 1891 a boy named Rafael Trujillo was born by a middle aged family in San Cristobal on October 24, 1891. Another thing was that he was one of 11 children and was the third of them all. When he started growing up Trujillo wanted a job so what he decided to do was go and take a job as a Telephone Operator at the age of 16 years after attending a formal elementary school and a private middle school. So after he had his job for a little while Trujillo decided to forge a check from his family bank and because of that he lost his job and also was served time in jail. Also in 1916 Trujillo was known to be in a gang that had also supported him to his criminal ways and was part of the reason that he had forged the check in the first place. After

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin sentenced a Charleston man Thursday to 70 months in federal prison for gun crime, announced U.S. Attorney Carol Casto.

Juan Cortina was born in 1824, in Camargo, Tamaulipas Mexico. Racher and Politician, Juan Cortina is remembered in our history for him and his army, taking control of Brownsville. He along with others saw the US as a threat against their property as Anglos set up land net to his, so he organized a group, an army if you will to fight the First Cortina War”. Cortina backed off following negotiations with Mexican leaders, but he was commonly known for demanding rights of Tejanos and MExicans and demand anyone be punished that would violate the rights that he stated. Once the Texas Rangers got involved, there was tension between them all, this went on for years between them both and on December 1859; Rangers finally went after Cortinas army in

The story The President is all about a dictator who does not have pity in the country of Latin America usually known as Guatemala. Wherein in this country has no freedom or what we call totalitarian government. People do not have the ability or power to do whatever they want; they are being controlled by only one person, the president. The cruelty of life has been shown to everyone life. They are being denied to the true meaning of life and beautiful environment of the world.

Francisco Franco was the dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975, including the time of WW2. Perhaps he was better known as “El Caudillo,” translated into English as The Leader. He was born and raised in Spain. He was a very brilliant military general who led Nationalist rebels in defeating the Spanish government during the Spanish Civil War. Although he was viewed as a Fascist Dictator, he strongly opposed communism. He was an extremely important figure in the course of world history.

Bombs exploding everywhere and at anytime scared everyone making people to better stay at home. The ones having the power were the Drug Lords and terrorist guerrillas who sustained themselves by making illegal businesses, such as weapons and drugs. Cocaine was the “boom” for Escobar’s power so the “respectable Colombian society had picked a fight with the most powerful man in their country, and there would be hell to pay” (Bowden 44). In the early 1980’s Pablo was not known yet a lot, but then when he was gaining power, no one could offend Pablo in public because that person then would be killed. So not a single person was capable of complain against Pablo or demand something against him. That’s why Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombian politician Minister of Justice was killed in 1984, he announced who was the real Pablo Escobar and he was Pablo’s first victim. It's sad how can a person be so dominant and powerful to create that strong fear in a huge society, instead of contributing favorable stuff for