• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, that’s a nasty military failure, but the Cuban communists were not the bad guys in that period, relative to the other powers in Latin America. I don’t actually know anything about Trujillo, but I bet I can make good guesses about what kind of leader he was.

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      5 months ago

      He was said to have the best fed sharks in the Caribbean. Political dissidents had a tendency to disappear during his reign.