His rule of 31 years, known to Dominicans as the Trujillo Era (Spanish: El Trujillato or La Era de Trujillo), is considered one of the bloodiest and most corrupt regimes in the Western hemisphere, and centered around a personality cult of the ruling family. He served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military strongman under figurehead presidents. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( / t r uː ˈ h iː j oʊ/ troo- HEE-yoh, Spanish: 24 October 1891 – ), nicknamed El Jefe ( Spanish:, "The Chief" or "The Boss"), was a Dominican dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961.
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