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Tuesday 30th of May 1961

63 years ago



Politician, soldier and dictator Rafael Trujillo born as Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina aka El Jefe is shot and killed when his blue 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air is ambushed on a road outside the city at the age of 70 in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic.


Trujillo was the victim of an ambush plotted by a number of men, among them General Juan Tomás Díaz, Pedro Livio Cedeño, Antonio de la Maza, Amado García Guerrero and General Antonio Imbert Barrera.