WOLCOTT, Conn., May 5, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Ever heard of the infamous Rafael Trujillo from the green valleys, tropical rivers and majestic mountains of the Dominican Republic? Overflowing with stunning descriptions of nature's bounty in the small Dominican island and vivid depiction of this autocratic ruler's cruelty over his people, Miguel Aquino's The Loves of the God: A Fact Based Novel (now available through 1stBooks) is a seething portrayal of Dominican Republic's tyrant and his perennial exploitation, abuse and murder of beautiful and innocent women.
The Loves of the God is an incisive look at the life, behavior and caprices of Rafael Trujillo. "In his use of power to exploit women, Trujillo turned his military and political apparatus in a huge network for human hunting, with all imaginable means of coercion, that caused practically everyone around him ... to become subjects deprived of any hint of dignity and self esteem ... Trujillo found joy in enforcing himself in his closest associates' wives or daughters, in any woman whose natural beauty stood out, regardless of age or social status all over the country and for thirty long years... ." Learn the history of the true encounters between the dignified First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and this dictator and sexual predator, both in his country, where she spent a week as his special guest, and in Washington where Trujillo was himself a guest to President Roosevelt.
Aquino's language adequately reflects the tyranny of this authoritarian ruler, the abject plight of the governed and the roll of President Kennedy's CIA on Trujillo assassination, upon the taking power of Castro in Cuba. This is a book that should be read by anyone and everyone who is interested in history, political science and the interesting happenings of the U.S. foreign policy as it relates to Latin American countries, in the post Castro era.
Miguel Aquino is a practicing physician in Connecticut. The contrast between the "human side" of the dictator's family, that this author got to experience through direct contact, and the viciousness of a man whose sociopathic behavior violated all rules and principles of humanity, greatly impressed the author and caused him to further study tyranny and other heads of state.
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