Ever since Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina seized power in the Dominican Republic in 1930, his enemies have led precarious lives, no matter how far from home they fled. In 1935 a gunman burst into a New York City apartment and killed Sergio Bencosme, onetime Interior Minister of the Dominican Republic. In 1952 Andrés Requena, editor of an anti-Trujillo newspaper, was gunned down in another Manhattan apartment. Last year Jesús de Galindez. author of an anti-Trujillo book, disappeared, and all signs pointed to another assassination. All the while Trujillo complained that he could not understand his bad publicity abroad.
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