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'I shot the cruellest dictator in the Americas'

Before his assassination on a dark highway on 30 May 1961, the Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ruled with an iron fist for almost 30 years. Tim Mansel meets one of the men who shot him.

Rafael Trujillo's rule is considered one of the most brutal periods in the history of the Dominican Republic. Taking power in 1930, his hold over the country was absolute. He brooked no opposition.  

Antonio Imbert is 90. Fifty years ago he was one of the seven men who ambushed and killed Rafael Trujillo.

He is a large man with closely cropped hair and he has put on a military uniform for my visit.

General Imbert - he was given the military rank later to enable him to receive a state pension - is officially a national hero....  

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