DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo / Listin Diario

President Luis Abinader has joined dozens of other nations in his condemnation of the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine as ordered by the ex-KGB operative and current head of the Russian state, Vladimir Putin. Listin Diario reports on other times when a Dominican statesman has taken a stance or even action against another head of state.

After Pearl Harbor in 1941, Rafael Trujillo, then officially the “Benefactor of the Fatherland” (but not the President) was in New York City, and he called on the National Congress to authorize the Executive Branch to declare war on Japan. This, of course, they did, and President Manuel de Jesus Troncoso did just that. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent his congratulations. The results were swift, and not pleasant: German U-boats sank every Dominican merchant vessel on the...