In the memoirs of Johnny Abbes García, a gloomy character from the disastrous Trujillo era, praises to the dictator and the supposed achievements achieved for the country abound. Even, to evade responsibility, he justifies the bloody actions of the tyrant alleging communist persecution, when history has more than shown the true version, through the same victims who suffered his humiliation. The denial of so much tragedy and human extermination can only be explained by the psychopathy of the author who never exhibits even a hint of regret for all the mourning caused to so many Dominican families.
Between the supposed ignorance of tragic events that could not be ignored by him from his proximity or others that impregnate with false patriotism, he goes to the extreme of blaming those who surrounded him for turning the satrap into that fatal being that only his physical disappearance could stop, after three decades of crazy outrage. Perhaps that last part could provoke some reflection on, indeed, a Trujillo without Trujillistas, an oppressor without the oppressed, a torturer without executors, would have been possible. In short, a singer of opprobrium without an audience to applaud him, exalt him and encourage him to continue believing that everything was going tremendously well and that he was invincible because nothing and no one could bring him down.
Could there be an idol without believers in his ideology, a master without vassals or a captain without a troop? It would seem not, although we will never know. What is certain is that a beast is formed, if it does not have tamers to stop it and that the fear of facing it is not enough, but the courage to be consistent and not follow it. Any leader who surrounds himself with a circle that only assents and is an echo of his wishes comes to believe that he is unbeatable, unattainable and all-powerful, no matter how democrat he claims to be. The ego is an insatiable boa fed by servants.
In addition to fighting so that another spawn of evil like the satrap of sad memory does not return, it would be necessary to ensure that there are no those who, either by maintaining privileged positions, or by decision, cowardice or complicity, promote (or form) another equal. For a monarch to want to perpetuate himself, he needs a scepter to hold him and a group to keep him standing ready to place the crown on him because the clown would not exist without those who celebrate his jokes.
