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==In media== {{unreferenced section|date=May 2018}} {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;" |- !width=5%|Media type!!width=25%|Title!!Release date!!class=unsortable|Details |- |Book |''Trujillo: The Little Caesar of the Caribbean'' |1958 |Authored by Germán Ornes Coiscou, this book reveals the terror of Trujillo's dictatorship as it became a cancerous growth infecting generations of Dominicans for more than 30 years. |- |Book |''[[The Terrible Ones (novel)|The Terrible Ones]]'' |1966 |Authored by Valerie Moolman, the book describes the attempts of The Terrible Ones (the widows of murdered Trujillo opponents), Cuban fidelistas and Chinese communist forces to locate and recover US$100 million in gold and precious stones accumulated by Trujillo during his dictatorship. |- |Book |''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'' |1971 |Authored by [[Frederick Forsyth]], the book fictitiously attributes "credit" for this assassination to the titular assassin. An English arms dealer, suspected of being "the Jackal", had a meeting with Trujillo's chief of police in Ciudad Trujillo on 30 May 1961, trying to sell the police British surplus submachine guns. However, Trujillo is assassinated that same day, and the arms dealer is forced to flee the Dominican Republic. |- |Film |''[[The Day of the Jackal (film)|The Day of the Jackal]]'' |1973 |Directed by [[Fred Zinnemann]], the film, like the book of the same title, fictitiously attributes "credit" for this assassination to its titular assassin. |- |Book |''Memorias de un Cortesano de la Era de Trujillo'' |1988 |Authored by [[Joaquín Balaguer]], the last puppet president of the Dominican Republic appointed by Trujillo, in 1960, and who went on to rule in his own right for most of the period 1966–1996. |- |Book |''La era de Trujillo: un estudio casuístico de dictadura hispanoamericana'' |1990 | Manuel Vazquez Montalbán, a Catalan writer, wrote about [[Galíndez]] en 1990. The book is a fictional recreation of the life and disappearance of the diplomat. |- |Book |''[[In the Time of the Butterflies]]'' |1994 |Authored by [[Julia Alvarez]], the book describes the lives of the four Mirabal Sisters, who lived under Trujillo's regime; three of them eventually were killed after joining the resistance against his rule. |- |[[Documentary film|Documentary]] |''El Poder del Jefe I'' |1994 |Directed by [[René Fortunato]] |- |[[Documentary film|Documentary]] |''[[Ken Burns]]' [[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]] |1994 |Winning the Dominican National Championship with [[Satchel Paige]] and [[Josh Gibson]] discussed in Inning Five: Shadow Ball. |- |TV film |''[[Soul of the Game]]'' |1996 |Brief appearance during a baseball game in Santo Domingo. |- |[[Documentary film|Documentary]] |''El Poder del Jefe II'' |1996 |Directed by René Fortunato |- |[[Documentary film|Documentary]] |''El Poder del Jefe III'' |1998 |Directed by René Fortunato |- |Book |''[[The Feast of the Goat]]'' |2000 |A book by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], set in the Dominican Republic and portraying the assassination of the Dominican dictator, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately after the assassination itself, in May 1961; and thirty-five years later, in 1996. |- |TV film |''[[In the Time of the Butterflies (film)|In the Time of the Butterflies]]'' |2001 |Directed by Mariano Barroso and Trujillo played by [[Edward James Olmos]]. Based on [[In the Time of the Butterflies|the novel by Julia Alvarez]] (1994) about the regime assassination of the dissident Mirabal sisters. |- |Book |''Before We Were Free'' |2002<ref>{{cite book |author=Julia Alvarez |year=2002 |title=Before We Were Free |publisher=A. Knopf |isbn=978-0-375-81544-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/beforewewerefree00alva }}</ref> |[[Julia Alvarez]], a Dominican-American writer, wrote this young-adult novel about Anita, a twelve-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic in 1960, who realizes that life under the reign of Trujillo is much darker and more dangerous than she had previously known. |- |Film |''El Misterio Galíndez – The Galindez File'' |2003 |Gerardo Herrero directed ''El Misterio Galíndez'', a movie about Jesús de Galíndez Suárez, activist of the [[Basque Nationalist Party|PNV]] party and [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque]] diplomat who disappeared in 1956; allegedly because of his opposition to Trujillo's regime. |- |Film |''[[The Feast of the Goat (film)|The Feast of the Goat]]'' (*) |2006 |Directed by [[Luis Llosa]] and Trujillo played by [[Tomás Milián]] |- |Book |''[[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]'' |2007 |[[Junot Díaz]], a Santo Domingo-born American, wrote this [[Pulitzer Prize]]–winning book about a Dominican-American family. The book is a fictional account of the family's misfortunes interwoven with a recounting of the atrocities of Trujillo's regime, some of which are indirectly linked to the family's fate, following them like a curse or ''fukú'' across the generations. |- | Film |''Code Name: Butterflies'' |2009 |Directed by [[Cecilia Domeyko]]. Film about the life and death of the Mirabal sisters with interviews with people involved, and recreations of key events. |- | Film |''[[Trópico de Sangre]]'' |2010 |Directed by [[Juan Delancer]] and Trujillo played by [[Juan Fernández de Alarcon]]. The film focuses on Minerva Mirabal and tells the true story of how she and her sisters dared to stand up against dictator Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated in 1960 as a result. The film further details how this crime led to the assassination of Trujillo. |- |Book |''[[The Ogre's Daughter]]'' |2024 |Authored by French novelist [[Catherine Bardon]] in 2022 and published in [[Tina Kover]]'s English translation by [[Europa Editions]], this is a fictionalized life of Trujillo's eldest surviving daughter Flor de Oro. |}
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