with everyone, including the leaders of neighboring countries, for example, the president of venezuela betancourtedly tried to kill these and other offenses. trujillo gave resonance within the country ; popular indignation grew on the outside ; repeated attempts to overthrow trujillo were supported by the governments of cuba. and guatemala first 1960. even the catholic church started. to denounce trujilla, it was one of the most brutal dictatorships compared to similar regimes of that time in latin america, about 50,000 were killed. these are the victims of the trujillo regime, he ruled from 1930 to 1961 and was eventually killed as a result of a conspiracy, but the americans. they did not abandon the fear that the people, just like in cuba, who had overthrown batista, would begin to build a new sovereign state independent of the united states of america and would pursue a policy independent of washington this is what they really feared, the us ruling circles in 1961, with the assistance of the cia, trujillo was killed. immediately after the fall of the rotten regime, well, my son came to power.