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Source/Further reading:

History, overview: https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/rafael-trujillo 

Memorial Museum of the Dominican resistance - some background: http://www.museodelaresistencia.com/category/antecedentes/ 

Britannica, history of the Dominican Republic: https://www.britannica.com/place/Dominican-Republic/Caudillos#ref217437 

US Occupation: https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwi/108649.htm 

NY Public Library overview (cached): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CnMD9KzKdDMJ:https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/TrujilloBio.pdf+&cd=17&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=cz 

NPR - the Parsley Massacre: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/07/555871670/80-years-on-dominicans-and-haitians-revisit-painful-memories-of-parsley-massacre 

Trujillo’s ghost: https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2019/02/24/Rafael-Trujillo-ghost-dictator-bloody-reign-Dominican-Republic-Dennis-Roddy-Next-Page/stories/201902240030 

NY Times, some notes on the regimes cruelties: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/world/americas/13trujillo.html 

Mirabal Sisters: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/obituaries/dede-mirabal-overlooked.html 

Dominican civil war: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-troops-land-in-the-dominican-republic