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Dominican music and film

paganda. During the dictatorship, popular lyrics extolled the virtues of Trujillismo even as it was speciously based on terror and rule by a mano dura (iron fist).After Trujillo was killed in an assassination plot that many Dominicans deemed heroic (see next page), merengue faced an uncertain future. Artists trained during the trujillato, including “king of merengue” Johnny Ventura, summarily dropped the overt propaganda, but they emerged from the Trujillo era with a heightened awareness of the power of their craft. Johnny Ventura would later become an active political figure, and in 1998, win the mayoral election of Santo Domingo, the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic. In an interview in the summer of 2000, Johnny Ventura asserts, “I believe getting involved—not just the artists—in the search for solutions to the great wrongs and problems that we [Dominicans] face should be everyone’s obligation.” Of course the great majority of Dominican leaders are non-artists, but Ventura’s statement highlights an assumption in Dominican culture that merengueros can make serious contributions to Dominican society and politics.Monumento a la muerte del TiranoTrujillo's Death MonumentDe 1930 a 1961, el tirano Rafael Leonidas Trujillo dirigi la Repblica Dominicana como dictador y se mantuvo en el poder mediante el imperio del terror. En 1961 su auto fue valientemente interceptado frente al mar y baleado por colaboradores y subalternos suyos que pasaron a la historia como hroes al asesinarlo a los 70 aos de edad cuando se diriga a ver una amante fuera de la ciudad en la compaa exclusiva de su chofer y sin su peligrosa guardia personal.De los conspiradores, todos excepto dos fueron capturados y asesinados por seguidores del rgimen dictatorial que terminara poco tiempo despus. En el lugar del asesinato se encuentran estas esculturas para conmemorar la importancia del hecho y el arrojo de su...

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