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Rafael Trujillo

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (October 24, 1891 – May 30, 1961), nicknamed El Jefe (Spanish: [el ˈxefe]), was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military strongman under figurehead presidents. His rule of 31 years was one of the longest for a non-royal leader in the world, and one of the most brutal.

Popular Article: Federalist No. 8

Federalist No. 8 As published in The Daily Advertiser, alongside Federalist No. 9

Federalist No. 8, titled "Consequences of Hostilities Between the States", is a political essay by Alexander Hamilton and the eighth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published in the New-York Packet on November 20, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published. It was a response to critics of a national standing army. It examined the consequences of a dissolution of the union, and the potential conflict between the the states leading to the creation of state militias and the potential for military conflict between them.

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Abuja is a purpose-built city, created as the new capital of independent Nigeria (source: Abuja)

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