Blood in the streets : the life and rule of Trujillo /
by Albert C. Hicks ; introduction by Quentin Reynolds.
- New York, NY : Creative Age Press, Inc., c1946.
- xxiv, 230 pages : sepia map ; 21 cm.
This text contains a map of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on interior lining-papers. This resource contains a partial list of the names of Haitian victims of the Trujillo regime.
I. The "cynical" movement -- II. Guns and ballots -- III. Birth of a tyrant -- IV. The path to Success -- V. The transition period -- VI. Early and middle thirties -- VII. Tropical gold -- VIII. The modest Rafael -- IX. Washington's dilemma -- X. More monopolies -- XI. Prelude to slaughter -- XII. The scarlet Symphony -- XIII. Silence! -- XIV. Jamon Pescado -- XV. All is not well -- XVI. The tourist -- XVII. Plots and brothers -- XVIII. Prologue to today -- XIX. "I declare war!" -- XX. The bearer of gifts -- XXI. El Presidente -- XXII. More jabs at Haiti -- XXIII. The ball starts rolling -- XXIV. The opposition grows -- XXV Rafael's strong-arm man -- XXVI. The shadow falls -- XXVII. The dead speak.
'There is a man in this hemisphere about whom the people of the United States should know more. His name is Rafael Trujillo, and for further identification there is a choice of titles, more or less self-bestowed, the simplest of which is President of the Dominican Republic. Rafael Trujillo is not, however a man with a taste for simplicity, as a reading of Blood in the Streets will show. Yachts, Palatial residence, a variety of women and wine, all sum up to a personal life which is, in a word, "Colossal!" Among his more splendent and evidential titles are "El Generalissimo, " "The honorable Chief of State," (still relatively simple); and "Benefactor of the Fatherland," which is definitely sonorous. But Rafael Trujillo really hit his stride when, in some access of mystical politics, the vice-presidential palace was topped with a large blinking electric signs: Dios y Trujillo. A becoming modesty seems to have impelled the dictator to put his own last name. These evidences of megalomania might be harmless enough, merely entertaining, if it were not for other considerations. For, make no mistake, Rafael Trujillo is not mere a comic dictator if a tropical island. There are aspects of his rule which are not amusing. To put it most clearly, the citizens of the Dominican Republic die suddenly and violently. It is simple as that. They die in the streets, shot down by revolvers. They die in the jungles, cut down by machetes (15,000 Haitians along the Dominican border turned the river that flows there red with blood). They die in prison, by "self-destruction." they die in poor apartments and rooming houses in a New York exile, when the door bursts open suddenly and the room rings with gun-fire and smells of cartridge smoke. And over this phantasmagoria of violent death stands Trujillo, Benefactor of the Fatherland, a living embodiment of the kind of rule so many Americans died in the hope of removing forever from the earth. The Publishers present this book in an effort to bring the hope closer to a reality.' -- from the book jacket