Annotated Bibliography (1/22)

Annotated Bibliography

Bishop's Warning. (1960, August 15). Time, 07. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871477,00.html

This document describes the role of Catholic religious leaders, representatives of the dominant Dominican religion, in spurring poplar unrest against the Dominican dictator, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The church was one of the most outspoken groups against Trujillo, and the only one not subject to torture, imprisonment, and humiliation. Bishop’s Warning describes a population very quietly, but persistently on the verge of revolution.

Diederich, B. (1978). Trujillo: The Death of the Dictator. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers.

This slightly fictionalized account tells the emotional history of the death of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo through the eyes of a group of conspirators determined to rid the country of this dictator. Most telling is the work’s accounts of atrocities committed by Trujillo and on his orders, such as torture and acts of pedophilia. Also provided is a brief chronology of the Trujillo dictatorship.

Espinal, R. (1995). The Dominican Republic: Social Change and Political Stagnation . Latin American Perspectives, 22(3), 63-79. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from Jstor.

This article follows the economic side of the struggle to maintain democracy in the Dominican Republic. It traces various protest movements to the economic ups and downs which parallel them. The work concludes with a well organized argument showing the causal relationship of economic difficulties and civil unrest in a democracy.

Lissner, W. (1960, August 15). Castro Unit Assails Trujillo in His Capital. The New York Times, p. 12. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from ProQuest.

In this newspaper article, the reader is informed of Cuban-backed military actions in the Dominican Republic. The article also elaborates on openly anti-Trujillo protests, which would have been brutally suppressed. Although mass arrests and propaganda efforts continued, Lissner contends many on the world stage believe that Trujillo would not remain in power for long.