Today marks 60 years since the Hacienda María crimes

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Today marks 60 years since the Hacienda María crimes​



Hacienda María, was one of the properties in Trujillo.

Revenge. Ramfis wanted to avenge the dictator's death​


Today, Thursday, November 18, marks the 60th anniversary of the massacre of six of the executioners of the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The horrendous event occurred in Nigua, San Cristóbal, where Luis Manuel Cáceres Michel, Pedro Livio Cedeño, Salvador Estrella Sadhalá, Roberto Pastoriza Néret, Modesto Díaz Quezada and Huáscar Tejada Pimentel were murdered. Their bodies did not appear.

The crimes were perpetrated by Ramfis Trujillo, son of the dictator, along with Gilberto Sánchez Rubirosa, Luis José León Estévez (Ramfis' brother-in-law) and Fernando A. Sánchez Jr.
Ramfis had already expressed his intention to leave the country at a time when the population's mobilizations increased demanding the departure of Trujillo's relatives.
Shortly before leaving the territory, he prepared the horrendous crime as a farewell. He sent for the victims from La Victoria prison, under the pretext of making a descent where his father was executed. The prisoners were taken first to the Palace of Justice to simulate and then to the Hacienda María.
The first to be murdered was Pedro Livio Cedeño, who was placed on his feet, tied to a tree. Ramfis, who was drinking drinks with his henchmen, was the one who shot first. He smiled as he saw the body fall on its side.
Then they murdered Díaz, Pastoriza, Tejeda, Estrella and Cáceres.
Others who participated in the crimes were Major Américo Dante Minervino Matías, (commander of La Victoria who offered details of the events), José Alfonso León Estévez, Sergeant Pedro Julio Vizcaíno, (of the Military Intelligence and Secret Service and one of the guards who took the prisoners to the hacienda) and Colonel Juan Disla Abreu. None were convicted.
After the murders, three men were found shot with bullets in the vehicle that took the six out of jail. They claimed that they were police officers who had been killed in an escape attempt. But it was later learned that they were ex-convicts, victims of the plot.
The Memorial Museum of the Resistance and the Federation of Patriotic Foundations collected the details of those tragic events in the book “The Crime of the Hacienda María, Extradition File of Ramfis Trujillo”, which contains the details of the multiple murders of the heroes of the May 30.

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I was unaware of this, but as soon as I asked Mr AE what Hacienda Maria was, he remembered instantly. Even told me where the hacienda is. He was a teenager when that happened.
 
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cavok said:
If they're so positive this is the case, why wasn't he charged with murder?
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Good question.
A lot of murders go unsolved down here but once they have a suspect, to their credit, they have an excellent track record of hunting them down and killing them or arresting them.
 
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CristoRey said:
Good question.
A lot of murders go unsolved down here but once they have a suspect, to their credit, they have an excellent track record of hunting them down and killing them or arresting them.
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It's beginning to sound like nothing more than political slander to discredit Ramfis Trujillo.
 
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cavok said:
It's beginning to sound like nothing more than political slander to discredit Ramfis Trujillo.
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It was just me publishing an article about the 60th anniversary of them being killed. Ramfis has been disqualified from running already so that's a moot point.
 
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JD Jones said:
It was just me publishing an article about the 60th anniversary of them being killed. Ramfis has been disqualified from running already so that's a moot point.
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It still sounds like bs and there's plenty of people that hate Trujillo and won't hesitate to trash talk him or his family.
 
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cavok said:
It still sounds like bs and there's plenty of people that hate Trujillo and won't hesitate to trash talk him or his family.
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I'll tell you what, I know more than a few oldsters who will tell you how good he was. I listen and keep my opinions to myself.
 
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JD Jones said:
I'll tell you what, I know more than a few oldsters who will tell you how good he was. I listen and keep my opinions to myself.
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Me as well, and some of the folks I've spoken with over the years weren't even born when he was in charge. Mi amiga is in her 40's and wishes for a president "like Trujillo with less brutality". I laugh and tell her that some types of people only respond to brutality.
 
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cavok said:
It still sounds like bs and there's plenty of people that hate Trujillo and won't hesitate to trash talk him or his family.
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There is a law (that one is enforced) that basically prohibits anyone from saying only good things about Trujillo. Either you say only the bad (and there is plenty of that, but by this time it has all been said, its published in a myrad of books, movies, documentaries, etc) or if you say something positive about Trujillo it must be followed by saying something negative to avoid breaking the law.

Those that did suffered by one of their family member(s) persecuted, tortured and/or killed by the regime it goes without saying many will not be open to talk about anything positive of Trujillo.

But, and here is the kicker, 99% of Dominicans don't have a single family member that was persecuted, tortured or killed by the Trujillo regime. Almost all that did belong to the middle and upper classes. If you notice about the kilkers of Trujillo, many of them belong to families that had cars and were allowed to have guns. The only people that had guns back then were close friends of Trujillo and a car was an even greater luxury than now. They had a higher standard of living than most Dominicans. Even the Mirabal sisters. You visit their house museum near Salcedo, that's not how most Dominicans lived back then.

There are things not said about that era such as the average salary to formal workers was among the highest of Latin America. Of course,most people then were not formal workers, rather they were subsistence farmers and small farmers that sold their produce in the local market. But those that were in the formal sector, they were able to live from what they earned. Add to that wants were a lot less back then.
 
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