Sublime

Al igual que Marta, no muchas personas en la República Dominicana tenían conciencia clara de que, además del Generalísimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, había un Presidente de mera apariencia para satisfacer las exigencias de una careta democrática de los gringos, de quienes el régimen trujillista era hijo putativo y con los que no se llevaba nada bien

Miquilena’s constitution established in article 45 that if an order of a superior officer violates the constitution—which this order certainly did—then they did not have to follow that order. Miquilena knew this was no coup. It was an act of disobedience.

The PR person for Latinos pro Derechos Humanos, Manolo Gomez, who’d arranged the radio “debate,” was beaten and left for dead in an alley. His car was firebombed. He was also fired from his job as an editor for the Spanish-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine because he’d made public declarations about his homosexuality.