Citizens of the Dominican Republic might argue that the most egregious breach of human rights was that they were not allowed to say or think anything that was against Trujillo as it was forbidden to them. The 19th UDHR law states “You have the right to say what you like and nobody should forbid you from doing so. You should also be able to share your ideas - also with people from any other country”. There have been many victims to the breach of the 19th human right, one of them Jesús de Galíndez. On page two of the article Las Hermanas Mirabal and Jesús de Galíndez by an unknown author it states “ Galíndez had heavily criticized Trujillo. It was this sensibility for other nations that made him a threat in the eyes of Trujillo. On March 12th, 1956, Galíndez disappeared off the streets of Manhattan. There is no clear evidence for what exactly occurred that day, despite the fact that many historians and news sources blame the Dominican government for his unexplainable …show more content…
The Dominican citizens would argue this is the most egregious breach of the 19th human right of being able to have and state any opinion you may have as Galíndez negative opinion of Trujillo lead to his
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina is without a doubt one of the most known figures within the Dominican history. The “Era de Trujillo” (The Trujillo Era) occupied the Dominican Republic for the long period of thirty-one years. His dictatorship started in 1930 and ended with his assassination on May 30, 1961. Trujillo’s Career began with the occupation of the United States in 1916. During this time he was trained in a military school, and became part of the National Police, a military group made by the Unites States to maintain order in the Dominican Republic . Trujillo stood out during his military career and rapidly ascended within the military ranges. Under the government of Horatio Vasquez Trujillo received the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was put in charge of chiefs and assistant commanders of the National Police . This new position gave him the opportunity to be part of the overthrowing of Horatio Vasquez. Trujillo was sworn into presidency on August 16, 1930. Marking the beginning of what is known as the cruel, violent and controversial part of history in the Dominican Republic.
Miguel Melendez’s book, “We Took the Streets” provides the reader with an insightful account into the activities of the Young Lords movement established in the latter years of the 1960s and remained active up until the early seventies. The book’s, which is essentially Melendez’s memoir, a recollection of the events, activities, and achievements of the Young Lords. The author effectively presents to the reader a fascinating account of the formation of the Young Lords which was a group of college students from Puerto Rico who came together in a bid to fight for some of the basic rights. As Melendez sums it up, “You either claim your history or lose authority over your future” (Melendez 23). The quote is in itself indicative of the book’s overall
On 7 June 1969, hundreds of Puerto Ricans gathered in Spanish Harlem, New York City to protest the arrest of Juan" Fi" Ortiz for a series of falsified crimes.[2] As a crowd gathered outside the People's Church in El Barrio, Felipe Luciano addressed those assembled asserting that, " We will not allow the brutalization of our community to go on without a response. For every Puerto Rican that is brutalized, there will be retaliation."[3]Luciano's statements were not ignored, and as the crowd filtered into the streets their shouts of Despierta, Boricua. Defiende lo tuyo filled the air.
The novel ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’, by Junot Diaz gives a very entertaining insight towards many social dynamics that are relevant to Dominican culture, and it fits very well within the scope of the course; and, although it is a work of fiction, this novel is set in New Jersey, and deals specifically with the Dominican Republic experience under the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. From what I’ve learned after reading the first half of this book, there is certainly a lot that can be discussed. Thankfully the book’s versatile portrayal of vivid topics that are seldom discussed shine light upon these many issues that face such an overlooked culture, especially for the American audience.
I chose the Anthony Hernandez case. He was convicted of murder in 2015 for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
Each famous dictator had a way of “changing” or manipulating history to benefit them. Hitler did it by clearing out his name and saying that he was a pure catholic, while in reality, his grandmother was Jewish. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini did it by become the leader he was by murdering all other candidates for his job. Trujillo is just like these famous dictators, just like Minerva compares him to them during the book In the Time Of the Butterflies. Just like those dictators, he had his method of making himself look good by manipulating history. Rafael Trujillo’s power influenced a lot of groups during the time of his rule . The groups that got most affected by Trujillo's regime where religion, education and gender roles.
“No flies fly into a closed mouth” pertains to this situation because it reveals how Alvarez’s family did not want to speak out about what they endured due to the consequences they would face. Alvarez states, “But if I shut up, wouldn’t I still be fanning the embers of the dictatorship with its continuing power of censorship … of many Dominicans?” This elucidates how Julia believes if she did not publish her novel she would continue living out the quote “No flies fly into a closed mouth” For this reason Julia decided to go against her mother’s wishes and publish her book anyway to show that she and her family were not victims of Trujillo, but
The current century has witnessed immense improvement and re-conceptualization of standards and sovereignty of human rights in Latin America. With the endemic repression and violations of human rights throughout Latin American in the mid to late 20th century, the International human rights regime, an amalgam of international and intergovernmental organizations and bodies, expanded exponentially. By conducting investigations within certain countries, or simply monitoring overt violations of human rights, the international human rights regime stimulated global awareness of violations of human rights in different countries; soon to follow was change in domestic policy in response to international policy. This also led to increased opposition by domestic NGOs against repressive governments or dictatorships largely responsible for human rights violations. Just as well, a number of organizations and groups aided domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their growing efforts to establish judicial practices that better protected human rights. Declarations, conventions, and charters, established a number of values that served as the credo for the organizations that constituted the international human rights regime. Over time, more and more countries were pressured and held accountable for these values, which developed into universal standards for human rights practices. Thus the International Human right regime and the pressure they imposed upon governments ultimately resulted in widespread positive changes in human rights.
We are the prosecuting stance in the Pizarro vs. human rights case. Pizarro began his voyage by holding 3 Indians as “captives” for the use of interpreters. By definition, captive means enslaved or imprisoned, in other words against their own will. This breaks article 4 of the human rights act which states no one shall be held in slavery. Furthermore, Article 2 states, everyone is entitled to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as religion. These rights were broken as Pizarro and his men forced their Christian religion among the Indians. The Indians refused, and instead of acknowledging those rights possessed, they disregarded them. They violated Article 18 which grants everyone the right to freedom of religion, to
For years Cuba not only has been fighting for freedom, also several domestic issues are being part of the island’s national history. Human rights, prostitution; and poverty are part of the most relevant domestic issues that Cuba is facing until now dates. While the government has the primary responsibility and is particularly accountable for the full execution of the human rights inherent to all human beings, Cuba is part of many countries around the world where human rights are violate on a daily basis. As reported on the Country Reports on Human Rights for year 2013; Cuba is a country where the government organized mobs to assault and disperse those who sought to gather peacefully (Country Reports of Human Rights), the society in Cuba live without guarantee of basic individual freedoms of press, religion, association, speech, etc. Cuba count with a political system of abusive laws, corrupt institutions, and with a criminal code that allows the state to imprison individuals even before they committed a crime on the suspicion that they might commit one in the future. This is the Cuba’s “dangerousness” law, this repressive law categorize those who do not have the same ideas as the government or contradict socialist norms; as a potential threat or “dangerous”. The number of political prisoners increase every year, they are subject to criminal prosecution and they don’t have any guarantees since public hearings are conduct by incompetent and biased tribunals. Like Ramon Velasquez case, who was condemn to three years in prison in January 2007, after a “march of dignity” across Cuba to call for respect of human rights and freedom for political prisoners (Imprisoned for “Dangerousness” in Cuba). Unfortunately these type of detentions a...
It is influential to have strong people who want to fight for their rights. It is often easy to focus on oppression than it is to change it. It takes courage to be able to go against the rules of law. In both “In The Time Of The Butterflies” and “The Censors” , Juan and the Mariposas not only reveal their courage, but also develop significant symbols to the roles of each one of them during their time overcoming oppression. The Mirabal’s behavior towards their determination to fight for freedom, symbolizes the hope for freedom. The Dominicans were blessed to have four courageous women who went against the law in order to better their country for all. In the other hand, Juan role to overcome oppression resulted in his death and death to many innocent people. His behavior symbolize distrust, one cannot trust anyone, not even yourself. He was so caught up with his job, doing what he believed was right, he ended up censoring
Rafael Trujillo was the infamous dictator of the Dominican Republic. He was often feared by some and loved by others. Trujillo often attracted followers by utilizing his sexual intrigue. He would take advantage of woman to boost his political power and to put his subjugates on a higher pedestal . Trujillo also changed the “common Dominican household”, with this being he aided in changing the gender relations between males and females. Trujillo also utilized the infamous trait that various men from Latin America take pride, Machismo. With this being said Trujillo utilized gender relation, sexual intrigue and machismo to his favor to get the citizens to jump on his bandwagon causing them to legitimately agree with his regime.
In other words, the right of revolution whether peaceful of violent allows for people to overthrow a government that acts against the common interest. This right safeguards democratic principle against despotic, tyrannical governments. In the mid 1950`s ,for example, the Dominican Republic was ruled dictatorially by Rafael Leonid as Trujillo Molina who referred to himself as the Savior of Mankind and Son of God. During his 30 years in power, it is estimated that Trujillo was responsible for the death of more than 50,000 Dominicans. Brutal oppression and unjust massacres such as the Parsley Massacre became key features of Trujillo`s rule. As a result, Dominicans, tired of being oppressed, with the assistance of the CIA ambushed the dictator, assassinating him. With the assistance from the United States, in the period after Trujillo`s death, the Dominican Republic eventually became a democratic republic. Since the people were dissatisfied with Trujillo`s neopatrimonialism rule which inhibited the consolidation of democracy in the Dominican Republic, the citizens took action and overthrew the Trujillo
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status (United N). In 1948, The Universal Declaration of Human Right was passed (United). A change in our world was to be made, however, not every country completed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been appropriately acknowledged as “the rape capital of the world.” (Carly). Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been one of the manys countries who have not abided to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As said in the previous sentence, they have been known for having multiple rape cases. Many of these cases were
We live in a world where people are very opinionated. Even if some opinions may be completely nonsense, they still have the right to freedom of opinion because it is their fundamental human right. As for people of today, they use social media networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to voice their thoughts and express their feelings about certain topics, most commonly beauty fashion tips and how unfair it is that Leonardo Dicaprio has yet to receive an Oscar. There are people who also write about environmental issues, as basic human right the economy and politics; that has caused a lot of commotion. Due to that, “commotion” countries like China, Vietnam, and Pakistan have blocked many famous social networking sites and now recently Venezuela has blocked twitter because they feel that they are tweeting anti-governmental propaganda. Why is it that the people, who supposedly rule a country for the better of the people’s wellbeing, do not give them a fair chance to voice their opinions? (Picture 4)