{"id":212000,"date":"2024-02-28T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=212000"},"modified":"2024-02-28T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:35:00","slug":"trujillo-used-architecture-to-impose-his-dictatorship-in-the-psyche-of-dominicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/28\/trujillo-used-architecture-to-impose-his-dictatorship-in-the-psyche-of-dominicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trujillo used architecture to impose his dictatorship in the psyche of Dominicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jose-Enrique-Delmonte-Son\u0303e-Diario-Libre-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212061\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jose-Enrique-Delmonte-Son\u0303e-Diario-Libre-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jose-Enrique-Delmonte-Son\u0303e-Diario-Libre-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jose-Enrique-Delmonte-Son\u0303e-Diario-Libre-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jose-Enrique-Delmonte-Son\u0303e-Diario-Libre.png 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Jos\u00e9 Enrique Delmonte So\u00f1\u00e9 \/ Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In his research for his doctorate, architect Jose Enrique Del Monte unfolds that Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo discovered and used as of the 1940s the immense power that architecture can exercise on a people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Del Monte has presented the thesis \u201cArchitectural language in the discourse of power in the Dominican Republic, 1940-1950.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with Elina Maria Cruz of Diario Libre, Del Monte explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn that sense, education, religion, art, culture, leisure and production are considered means of dissemination and control that become the force that truly sustains the regime. From a distance, we are amazed at how an entire society participated in consolidating a dictatorship like Trujillo&#8217;s. But in its initial moment, there was a feeling of need to direct the country towards progress without the obstacles represented by the disorderly and visceral Dominican political experience. That was the turning point in our history of the first half of the 20th Century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/reportajes\/2024\/02\/25\/el-uso-que-dio-trujillo-a-la-arquitectura-en-su-dictadura\/2624673\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 February 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his research for his doctorate, architect Jose Enrique Del Monte unfolds that Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo discovered and used as of the 1940s the immense power that architecture can exercise on a people. Del Monte has presented the thesis \u201cArchitectural language in the discourse of power in the Dominican Republic, 1940-1950.\u201d In an interview &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/28\/trujillo-used-architecture-to-impose-his-dictatorship-in-the-psyche-of-dominicans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212063,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212000\/revisions\/212063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}