Antonio De La Maza had a reputation for the love of whiskey, women,and his large farm in Moca, in that order. Nothing I have read says that De La Maza was a rapist. I have been researching this accusation and have not been able to find any information to support that allegation, on the contrary, the readings I have seen point to the fact that De La Maza was deeply upset by Trujillo's treatment women, especially the vicious murder of the Mirabal Sister's by SIM agents in 1960.
The circumstances of their killing is well known to most Dominicans now. The sisters were ambushed, driven into the mountains with their driver, and taken into a sugar cane field. There a hand picked squad of SIM dragged the sisters off into different parts of the sugar cane. All the sister's had there arms tied behind their backs. One of the sister's managed to break free and run back to the road, attempting to flag down a car to help her, she was dragged back screaming and crying. Moments later, Maria Teresa,apparently under going a sexual assault, started screaming "You can kill me but you're not going to rape me!" The commander of the SIM unit, Sergeant de la Rosa ,shouted for the soldier to just hurry up and kill her. The women were all brutally beaten to death with clubs, dragged back to their car, and pushed off a cliff. The Dominican government declared it a tragic auto acident, but most people knew this was a Trujillo ordered murder.
The killing of the Mirabal sisters sent deep shock waves through Dominican society. This particular crime, the murder of defenseless women, rattled people more than any of Trujillo's numerous atrocities. It was something that affected the Dominican sense of Machismo. It also upset der la Maza who told Salvador Estrella Sadhala, "this is an outrage! Look at what they are doing to women now!" he continued, "We must do something to finish this madman."
It is true that the members of the group were from the Dominican elite, and many owned there fortunes to Trujillo, but some men, like Louis Amiana Tio actually turned down cabinet minister positions twice to avoid working for The Trujillo regime. The Mirabal murder is also what finally pushed General Lupo Roman, a man married to Trujillo's niece, to join in the plot to kill el jefe.
I believe Golo when he says his parents hid his beautiful younger sister from de la Maza, but the story about him being an abductor of attractive girls sounds like something Trujillistas and the SIM would spread around to discredit someone who Trujillo feared might be working against him in some manner. In fact it was Trujilo who was an abductor of beautiful young girls, it would be wise to hide pretty daughters from Trujillo and his brothers first and foremost.
The reason Imbert has a large security detail
On March 21, 1967, while driving through Santo Dom ingo, without a single body guard, General Imbert was ambushed by a blue Chevrolet Impala. The assassins inside opened fire with m-16's and FAL automatic weapons, the car was riddled with bullets. Imbert was shot twice in the shoulder, his friend was seriously wounded. Inspite of his car having a tire blown out by bullets, Imbert sped away and drove to the nearby International clinic, the same clinic that Trujillo assassin Pedro Livio had been treated.
The assassins were never caught. Later the rumor circulated that Ramfis Trujilo, from his exile in Europe, had paid 100,000$ to have Imbert murdered.
I think it should be pointed out that many of those involved in the plot, as well as their family members ,were killed by Trujillistas after the assassination. Many suffered horrific tortures straight out of Dante's Inferno. General Pupo Roman had his head shaved, was brutally tortured, had his eyelids sewn back to his eye brows, kept awake for several days at a time, scarred with acid, castrated, and at one point forced to swallow his own castrated testicles. He suffered barbaric torture for months until Ramfis finally shot and killed him. The de la Maza family had five of its sons tortured and murdered by the SIM. Antonio de la Maza himself died bravely in a gun battle with heavily armed SIM agents.
Not everyone in the plot acted on selfish reasonings, many did it because of genuine moral outrage at Trujillo's cruelties.
Granted, Trujillo did much to build the DR into a modern nation, but the price in cruelty was eventually too much for even his elites to endure.
The guy was not merely a "bad president", he was a ruthless dictator. And a genocidal loon to boot. Of course he had things "under control", that's what dictators do. That and make the* train run on time.