ABSTRACT
The period from 1961 to 1966 in Dominican society was undoubtedly one of the most difficult periods in the entire history of La República Dominicana. It was a time for serious reflection and regrouping by every segment of the society. Reflection was in terms of considering the future direction of a community that had been rendered nearly comatose and paralyzed by thirty years of personal excesses of one unquestionably powerful individual, along with members of his family. Regrouping was mainly from the perspective of a drastic sociopolitical conversion and a reawakening of a national consciousness that had been formerly repressed. Democratization and organization, followed by a gripping civil war and yet another agonizing foreign military invasion and subsequent occupation, were the key elements characterizing the period that came in the far-reaching shadow of Trujillo’s assassination. Reaction to the Trujillo machine took the form of the emergence of various new political voices with a wide range of objectives and agendas.
