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Quote #10
Sometime in 1944 (so the story goes), while Abelard was still worried about whether he was in trouble with Trujillo, he started writing a book about—what else?—Trujillo. By 1945 there was already a tradition of ex-officials writing tell-all books about the Trujillo regime. But that apparently was not the kind of book Abelard was writing. His s***, if we are to believe the whispers, was an exposé of the supernatural roots of the Trujillo regime! A book about the Dark Powers of the President, a book in which Abelard argued that the tales the common people told about the president—that he was supernatural, that he was not human—may in some ways have been true. That it was possible that Trujillo was, if not in fact, then in principle, a creature from another world! (2.5.8.25)
If Trujillo was, in fact, "a creature from another world," that would explain a whole lot. As Díaz suggests here, it would explain why he was so powerful. It would also explain his cruelty. How else can you explain all the torture and murder and abuse? It makes perfect sense when you say it this way: Trujillo was inhuman.