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How did the Trujillo regime treat blacks?

posted 12 years ago by hypestyle
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was this addressed in the movie at all, or not?

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[–] Lola10 12 years ago

Mark Anthony's character (Lio) mentioned Trujillo would arrest and murder Black Hatian immigrants that came to the country because he wanted a whiter race. He claimed they were contaminating the Dominican race.

[–] chicago85 10 years ago

Look up the Parsley massacre of October 1937. It was known "El Corte" the cutting in the Dominican Republic. The killing was done by the Dominican Army
against Dominicans of Haitian ancestry living near the border with Haiti.

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[–] deborahjwood 8 years ago

Lola is correct. El Jefe was a typical psychopathic racial purist who strived to "purify" the Dominican Republic and make it "lighter" via murder and rape including mass executions of blacks - men, women and children. El Jefe was Hitler on a smaller scale and the United States is partially responsible for him coming into power as he was trained by our Marines (another triumph for the US -- we have a long history of empowering bad even evil men that end up as presidents, leaders, dictators that destroy their own countries). His assassination was the best thing to happen in the DR in 40 years.