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From a dictionary of Dominicanismos posted by our dear friend Norma Rosa the phrase has been around for quite some time:
https://sites.google.com/site/josell...dominicanismos |
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And the point of this thread is ? |
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Oh, I see, I just couldn't see the point of speculating on what a dead tyrant would think of our present times. |
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He was only a symptom of a much larger (an ancient) evil, believe me. If he wouldn't have existed, the chaotic Dominican reality of the time would have found another substitute, trust me on this, even among the different chieftains that disputed themselves the national pie before him. |
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in that case, the evil one would be the tyrant that succeeded trujillo and prevented the dominican people from a successful democratic transition when the window of opportunity was there. |
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And then you'll have another, and another, ad infinitum, because you and Africaida don't get the fact that one does nothing by eliminating a tyrant if the societal conditions (in our case, ancestral disorder) that gave rise to him still remain in place. It's not a matter of individuals, but of a whole system, or rather, non-system. The phrase "muerto el perro, se acabó la rabia" doesn't hold water in this case, and the reality of the country after the tyrant's death has been the best proof of this. |
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The old timers tell me ****ing on the side of the road got you 6 months in the pokey under Trujllio. But that's a minor point of history. The big picture points to the fact that every political system / leader has its good and bad and the good societal aspects under Trujillo were many, as well as the bad. K
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