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HIs full name was Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and was born in San Cristobal into a middle class family. Also he was raised with 10 siblings.
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This even showed his leadership qualities, ThenTrujillo was later promoted to private policeman on the plantation.
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He was made second-in-command of the guard and in June of 1925, he was promoted to commander-in-chief. After he was offered to train as an officer for the country's 'municipal' police force, 'the constabulary Guard'
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He was born with 6 siblings. His dad was named Angel who was a rich sugar plantation owner, from Spain. Next his mother was Lina Gonzalez who was a maid to Angel's first wife, Maria.
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He organized a secret police force to torture and murder supporters of the other candidate.And Trujillo won the election by a lot.
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he was known to not care for their civil liberties
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He ended by chosing someone who bascially did anything that he wanted him to do and who feared him
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He first loved sports more than school and he he also played baseball. But later he went to law school and got into the "political climate of Cuban nationalism, anti-imperialism and socialism."
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After Castro became came came to love social justice he then join the caribbean legion. Which planned to overthrow generalissimo Rafael Trujillo but it was not a success
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He married Mirta Diaz Balart. She was from a rich family from cuba and they had a son name fedilto. but their marriage later ended in 1955
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A group of about 150 armed men attacked the second-largest military base in Cuba but lost and Castro and Rual were held captive
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They landed on Cuban soil with the hope of starting a revolution. But they were met by heavy Batista defenses, almost everyone in the Movement was killed, But a couple of people escaped. They were Castro, Raúl, and Che Guevara.
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They had successful military campaigns throughout Cuba to capture and get key areas of the country. Which would give them an upper edge towards enemies.
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As Cuban prime minister, Castro's government made 'covert military and economic relations with the Soviet Union' which lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Rafael Trujillo was ambushed while traveling home in his car and shot by seven people and some were members of his own side
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since having rely on Soviet aid and trade, the downfall of the Soviet Union was in 1991. and suffered a lot more through the period of the 1990s
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The power switch was supposed to be temporary but he kept on having health problems so he formaly resigned
