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Oct 2023
20m 3s

Episode 8.8

Paul Kendrick
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The story of Latin America's most brutal dictator Trujillo who govern the Dominican Republic for 31 years and killed 50,000 of his people.  Yet even after his death the country was political unstable and in 1965, President Johnson would sent American troops to the country to put down a left wing revolt.  Also a look at decolonisation in the British West Indies and Canada's foreign policy.

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