Did Trujillo Deserve His Rule

50,000 in 31 years. That’s how many people were murdered under Trujillo's rule as a dictator. Trujillo was the dictator of the Dominican Republic for 31 years. He had no revolutionary ideas that put I'm in the spotlight of the political race, he unfairly reached his way to the top. He rose ranks in the military he entered in to the political race seeking more power in office. There is speculation that he slaughtered every person that ran against him so he would be garneted office. Trujillo's rule did bring the country a large amount of stability and prosperity for all his 31-year reign. The price for the stability he provided were that civil liberties were nonexistent and human rights violations were routine, the fear he installed in to his country made revolts very uncommon, anyone who spoke out against his rule was taken care of by his private army. He had very few supports but that followed by having very few that would go out against him. He controlled his capital and people with absolute control and he reinstated the capital as Cuidad Trujillo in his honor, as well as thousands of
other streets, monuments, and landmarks throughout the country made to honor him.
He rose to power by eliminating and therefor started the ‘Era of Trujillo’. In his reign of power, he led with fear in hearts of his citizens. Trujillo used the disaster of a Hurricane as a justification to enforce martial law on all citizens. He also imposed "emergency taxes" and even seized the bank accounts of his opposition. He acquired complete control of all key industries and financial foundations. The country could see some improvements to its economy, but those were mainly restricted to the capital city. Meanwhile, in more rural areas, entire low funded communities were relocated to make the way for Trujillo’s new sugar plantation. By law they were required to hang a photo of him in every household. He had complete control over the government and people. He would act out against the people who opposed his rule with jail time and torture. The secret police force he established included a widespread network of spies that were sent to censor the press and to threaten, expel, torture or kill rebels in orchestrated accidents or “suicides.” An example of this was the Marabal sisters who spoke out against his regime so his men plotted their brutal murders in 9161. He was responsible for the Parsley Massacre; 20,000 people are thought to have been killed on orders of Trujillo. But it went mostly unseen outside of the Dominican and Haiti. Even there, many Dominicans never knew about what happened in early October 1937. All the murders were able kept in the dark by Trujillo's secret service until they were convicted of their war crimes many years later,
May 1961, he was assassinated by young army officers in his own private army, acting on his own culture of assassination.
They have been described as unhappy about delays in being promoted It was in the 1950s that Trujillo lost all of his support from the United States, the Catholic Church and the Dominican elite. The US feared that the Cuban revolution would spread to the Dominican Republic, and therefore, they supported any conservative groups that wanted to overthrow Trujillo [9]. This position agrees with the Domino Theory, and the US foreign policy of containment. On May 30, 1961, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was murdered. Dominicans were restless with the dictator’s use of SIM (Servicio de Inteligencia Militar) and the abuses they caused upon family members. After Trujillo was murdered, Ramfis Trujillo, his son, served as dictator for five months. Later, Ramfis fled the
country.