s autores.Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic as dictator imposing terror on its inhabitants from 1930 until 1961, when he was killed by a group of brave men. They intercepted his car when he was on his way to see a mistress outside the city accompanied only by his driver, without his fierce personal guard.All but two of the killers where quickly captured on the days and weeks that followed and killed by members of the government that would soon fall without the presence of its leader.Source:http://www.sdq.com/galeria/malecon/monumentotrujillo.htm Luisito Marti and Nueba YolAnother merenguero, Luisito Marti, gained social stature standing alongside Johnny Ventura as an original member of the famous Combo Show group. However, unlike Ventura, Marti did not use his popularity to gain elected office. Instead, Marti used his Combo Show fame and the recognition gained from his own merengue group, El Sonido Orignal, to launch a successful career in film and television. Through these new media, Marti gained a strong voice in immigration debates by becoming a pop critic of Dominican culture particularly skillful at disillusioning his fellow Dominicans. He currently produces a TV series Mil caras del engao that exemplifies his dedication to educating the nave. In an interview on June 17, 2000, Marti explains that his purpose has been to bring to viewers stories in which people have been deceived so as to help his audience not fall naively into similar traps. In film, Marti made his most convincing attack on the Dominican cultural navet by criticizing an often-held Dominican assumption that America is a promised land worth leaving the Dominican Republic for. His acting role in the Angel Muiz-directed film Nueba Yol allowed him to show Dominicans a wealth of reasons not to immigrate to the United States and not to have excessive faith in the American Dream.In Nueba Yol, Luisito Marti plays the role of Balbuena, a Dominican desp...
