Editing Rafael Trujillo (section)

====Parsley massacre====
{{Further|Parsley massacre}}
Known as ''La Masacre del Perejil'' in Spanish, the massacre was started by Trujillo in October 1937. Claiming that Haiti was harboring his former Dominican opponents, he ordered an attack on the border. Tens of thousands of Haitians were murdered as they tried to escape. The number of dead is estimated to be 12,000–30,000.<ref>{{harvp|Capdevilla|1998}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Crassweller mentions those estimates and adds that, "A figure of 15,000 to 20,000 would be reasonable, but this is guesswork."<ref>{{harvp|Crassweller|1966|p=156}}</ref>|group=Note}}{{#tag:ref|Roorda mentions 12,000 as a likely figure.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Eric Paul Roorda |year=1996 |title=Genocide next door: the Good Neighbor policy, the Trujillo regime, and the Haitian massacre of 1937 |journal=Diplomatic History |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=301–319 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-7709.1996.tb00269.x}}</ref>|group=Note}}{{#tag:ref|"anyone of African descent found incapable of pronouncing correctly, that is, to the complete satisfaction of the sadistic examiners, became a condemned individual. This killing is recorded as having a death toll reaching thirty thousand innocent souls, Haitians as well as Dominicans."<ref>{{cite book|last=Alan Cambeira |title=Quisqueya la bella|edition=October 1996 |publisher=M.&nbsp;E. Sharpe |isbn=978-1-56324-936-5 |page=182|year=1997}}</ref>|group=Note}} The Dominican military used [[machete]]s to murder and decapitate many of the victims; they also took people to the port of Montecristi, where many victims were thrown into the sea to drown with their hands and feet bound.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Galván|first1=Javier A.| title= Latin American Dictators of the 20th Century: The Lives and Regimes of 15 Rulers|date=2012|publisher=McFarland|page=53}}</ref>

The Haitian response was muted, but its government eventually called for an international investigation. Under pressure from the US government, Trujillo agreed to a reparation settlement in January 1938 of US$750,000. By the next year, the amount had been reduced to US$525,000 (US${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|0.525|1937|r=2}}}}&nbsp;million in {{CURRENTYEAR}}); 30 dollars per victim, of which only two cents were given to survivors because of corruption in the Haitian bureaucracy.<ref name="Block p. 672"/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Bell |first=Madison Smartt |year=2008 |title=A Hidden Haitian World |journal=[[New York Review of Books]] |volume=55 |issue=12 |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/07/17/a-hidden-haitian-world/ |page=41}}</ref>

In 1941, Lescot, who had received financial support from Trujillo, succeeded Vincent as President of Haiti. Trujillo expected that Lescot would be his puppet, but Lescot turned against him. Trujillo unsuccessfully tried to assassinate him in a 1944 plot and then published their correspondence to discredit him.<ref name="Crassweller pp. 149-163"/> Lescot fled into exile in 1946 after demonstrations against him.<ref>{{cite journal|title=VIVE 1804!: The Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Generation of 1946|journal=Caribbean Quarterly|volume=50|number=4|date=December 2004|author=Matthew J. Smith|pages = 25–41|publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd.|doi = 10.1080/00086495.2004.11672248|jstor = 40654477|s2cid=151106144}}</ref>
[[File:Rafael Trujillo and Joaquin Balaguer with Pius XII.jpg|thumb|Trujillo and [[Joaquín Balaguer]] being received in audience by [[Pope Pius XII]] in 1955]]