Rafael Trujillo

Rafael Trujillo

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Rafael Leónidas Trujillo y Molina was born on 24 October 1891 in [[San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic]],{{Cite journal |last=Hardy |first=Osgood |date=1946 |title=Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3635777 |journal=Pacific Historical Review |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=409–416 |doi=10.2307/3635777 |jstor=3635777 |issn=0030-8684}} into a lower-middle class family.Rafael Trujillo. [Internet]. 2015. The History Channel website. Available from: http://www.history.com/topics/rafael-trujillo [Accessed 14 May 2015].
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo y Molina was born on 24 October 1891 in [[San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic]],{{Cite journal |last=Hardy |first=Osgood |date=1946 |title=Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3635777 |journal=Pacific Historical Review |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=409–416 |doi=10.2307/3635777 |jstor=3635777 |issn=0030-8684}} into a lower-middle class family.Rafael Trujillo. [Internet]. 2015. The History Channel website. Available from: http://www.history.com/topics/rafael-trujillo [Accessed 14 May 2015].


His father was José Trujillo Valdez, the son of Silveria Valdez Méndez of [[People of the Dominican Republic|colonial Dominican]] origin and José Trujillo Monagas, a [[Canary Islanders|Canary Islander]] sergeant who arrived in Santo Domingo as a member of the Spanish reinforcement troops during the [[Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain|annexation era]].
His father was José Trujillo Valdez, the son of Silveria Valdez Méndez of [[White Dominican|colonial Dominican]] origin and José Trujillo Monagas, a [[Canary Islanders|Canary Islander]] sergeant who arrived in Santo Domingo as a member of the Spanish reinforcement troops during the [[Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain|annexation era]].
Trujillo's mother was Altagracia Julia Molina Chevalier, later known as ''Mamá Julia'', daughter of the farmer Pedro Molina Peña, also of colonial Dominican origin, and teacher Luisa Erciná Chevalier, whose parents were of [[Saint-Domingue Creoles|Saint-Domingue Creole]] origin.
Trujillo's mother was Altagracia Julia Molina Chevalier, later known as ''Mamá Julia'', daughter of the farmer Pedro Molina Peña, also of [[White Dominicans|colonial Dominican origin]], and teacher Luisa Erciná Chevalier, whose parents were of [[France|French]] and light [[Mulatto Haitians|mulatto Haitian]] origin respectively.


Chevalier, Trujillo's maternal grandmother, was the daughter of Justin Victor Turenne Carrié Blaise, who was of French descent, and Eleonore Juliette Chevallier Moreau, who was part of the island's French mulatto class. From her mother's side, Chevalier was granddaughter of Louise Moreau and her husband Bernard Chevallier Louverture, a [[Mulatto Haitians|mulatto Haitian]] high-ranking officer and politician that established in San Cristóbal, who was the son of [[French nobility|French nobleman]] Jean Baptiste Chevallier, Marquis de Pouilboreau and his wife Marie-Noëlle Louverture.{{cite web |author=Antonio José Ignacio Guerra Sánchez |title=Trujillo: Descendiente de la Oligarquía Haitiana (1 de 2) |url=http://www.idg.org.do/capsulas/abril2008/abril200812.htm |access-date=1 May 2014 |date=12 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321070253/http://www.idg.org.do/capsulas/abril2008/abril200812.htm |archive-date=21 March 2014 |publisher=Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía |location=Santo Domingo}}{{cite web |author=Antonio José Ignacio Guerra Sánchez |title=Trujillo, descendiente de oligarquía haitiana (2 de 2) |url=http://hoy.com.do/capsulas-genealogicastrujillo-descendientede-oligarquia-haitiana/ |access-date=1 May 2014 |work=Cápsulas Genealógicas |date=24 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501065841/http://hoy.com.do/capsulas-genealogicastrujillo-descendientede-oligarquia-haitiana/ |archive-date=1 May 2014 |editor=Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía |publisher=Hoy}}
Chevalier, Trujillo's maternal grandmother, was the daughter of Justin Victor Turenne Carrié Blaise, who was of French descent, and Eleonore Juliette Chevallier Moreau, who was part of the island's French mulatto class. From her mother's side, Chevalier was granddaughter of Louise Moreau and her husband Bernard Chevallier Louverture, a [[Mulatto Haitians|mulatto Haitian]] high-ranking officer and politician that established in San Cristóbal, who was the son of [[French nobility|French nobleman]] Jean Baptiste Chevallier, Marquis de Pouilboreau and his wife Marie-Noëlle Louverture.{{cite web |author=Antonio José Ignacio Guerra Sánchez |title=Trujillo: Descendiente de la Oligarquía Haitiana (1 de 2) |url=http://www.idg.org.do/capsulas/abril2008/abril200812.htm |access-date=1 May 2014 |date=12 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321070253/http://www.idg.org.do/capsulas/abril2008/abril200812.htm |archive-date=21 March 2014 |publisher=Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía |location=Santo Domingo}}{{cite web |author=Antonio José Ignacio Guerra Sánchez |title=Trujillo, descendiente de oligarquía haitiana (2 de 2) |url=http://hoy.com.do/capsulas-genealogicastrujillo-descendientede-oligarquia-haitiana/ |access-date=1 May 2014 |work=Cápsulas Genealógicas |date=24 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501065841/http://hoy.com.do/capsulas-genealogicastrujillo-descendientede-oligarquia-haitiana/ |archive-date=1 May 2014 |editor=Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía |publisher=Hoy}}