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Estrella Sadhalá (a.k.a. "El Turco"), Huáscar Antonio Tejeda Pimentel, Luis Amiama Tió,
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Development: The Methods of Control in Trujillo’s Dominican Republic. Latin American Monographs Ser. 5 Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1970.
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Biography of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. Trans. Ida Espaillat. Ciudad Trujillo, RD: Editorial Atenas, 1956.
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Dictator Next Door- The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic 1930 - 1945. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
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Dictator. New Jersey: Markus Weiner, 2000. Rpt. of The Death of the Goat. 1978.
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Besault, Lawrence. President Trujillo: His Work and the Dominican Republic. USA: The Washington Publishing Company, 1936.
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Military police forced García to kill a young prisoner, who he later discovered was the brother of his fiancée.
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Galíndez, Jesús de. The Era of
Trujillo, Dominican Dictator. 1956. Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1973.
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Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Feast of the Goat. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
89:(June 2, 1931 – June 2, 1961) was one of the conspirators against, and killers of, Dominican dictator
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Addis, Mary Kathryn. “The Novel of the Dictator: History and Narrative Form.” Diss. U of California, 1984.
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Rood, Carlton. A Dominican Chronicle. Santo Domingo, DR: Taller Editions, Isabel la Católica 309, 1989
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