The dictator, Rafael Loenidas Trujillo Molina, simply known as Rafael Trujillo was born October 24,1891 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic. Though, he only attained an elementary education, Trujillo entered in the military in 1918. By 1929, Trujillo became The Commander and Chief of the National Army of the Dominican Republic. Trujillo then assumed the presidency in 1930 after eliminating any major threat to his presidency. Rafael Trujillo commenced his brutal era in the 1930’s in the Dominican Republic expanding his brutality across the island of Hispaniola. Hispaniola consists of two countries; Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic was the first country to face Trujillo’s wrath. Due to the fact that he was the elected
David was satisfied when he became a major leaguer. He became the top notch even when he in the minor league. Everyone knew his name. Everyone bought his baseball shirts. He was in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
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
Rafael Trujillo was the Dominican Republic’s dictator for over 30 years. His rule over the country for 3 decades is a long story to be told. Trujillo is one to think of when remembering the country’s history. He was a man to be feared, keeping control of the country during his two terms of presidency and then as a military land owner exercising authoritarian control. Trujillo was known for his strong anti-black beliefs. He proclaimed the Dominican Republic a white country, only accepting our Indian heritage. For this
Throughout the years, there have been many rises to power and dictators. Some of them being good and some of them being bad. Everyone remembers the bad ones such as, Hitler or The Roman Empire. But, there are some that go unrecognized such as, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo rise to power and dictatorship over the Dominican Republic brought on many people to rebel against him and eventually take him down.
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
De 1930 a 1961, el tirano Rafael Leonidas Trujillo dirigió la República Dominicana como dictador y se mantuvo en el poder mediante el imperio del terror. En 1961 su auto fue
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was the President of the Dominican Republic. He ruled the country as a dictator. In order to maintain his power, he eliminated people who disagreed with him by dismissing them from their jobs or even murdering them. He also put his family members in positions of power in the economy. Rafael Trujillo was a dictator that stopped at nothing in order to maintain his power over the Dominican Republic.
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
Early Life: His dad was a Mexican diplomat and because of this job, the family moved a lot and young Carlos spent his childhood in various Latin American cities. He attended English schools in Washington, D.C., and became fluent in the language. During his summer vacations, he returned to Mexico and attended Mexican schools. As a child, he learnt about Mexican history and folklore from his Mexican grandmothers and imbibed American culture while in Washington. He also became aware of international politics through discussions with his diplomatic father. He also spent time in various South American countries like Chile and Argentina, where
Pedro Alonzo Lopez who is also known as the “Monster of the Andes”, is a serial killer that is known to kill many people. At first he started off as a petty thief and then he went on to stealing cars in his teenage years. Then later on in his life he started killing and raping people. Pedro Lopez’s main victims were all young girls. He would look for young girls on a busy street or a market. After he would find his victim that he thought was good enough he would then go onto kidnaping them and then rape them. After he was done raping them he would strangle them to death as he would stare into their eye. He has been caught many times but was released and his main focus was to make the young girls lose their innocence. He is known to kidnap, rape and kill over 300 young girls. After he was done killing them he would bury them and sometimes he would even bury 3-4 girls in one grave. In a confession he once stated that he would have tea parties or would play morbid games with the dead children, not only that but he would also prop them up in their grave and talk to them and would convince himself that his little friends likes the company (websleuths).
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Don DeLillo is a celebrated American playwright and novelist. Twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, DeLillo has diversely spanned his work. His writings cover topics from fiction to real stories, global terrorism to economics, and it has been always renowned. His literary works White Noise and Libra won him many accolades.