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Local June 14, 2018 | 1:51 pm

A June 14 that challenged Trujillo’s 30-year reign of terror

Santo Domingo.- The revolutionary expedition of June 14, 1959 was quickly decimated by the dictator Rafael Trujillo's forces, but its heavy burden in executions, torture and persecution was so traumatic for society that it undermined the bloody regime's core. The cruelty of the tortures and executions of the mostly young expeditionary fighters, many of them belonging to the middle and high clas... Read more