La Fiesta del Chivo

Study guide
Suggested Readings
Cambeira, Alan. Quisqueya La Bella: The
Dominican Republic in Historical and
Cultural Perspective. M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1997
Ferguson, James. Dominican Republic: Beacon of
Despair. NACLA (North American
Congress on Latin America Journal) Report on the
Americas, Vol. XXIV, 1990
Hartlyn, Jonathan. The Struggle for Democratic
Politics in the Dominican Republic. University of
North Carolina Press, 1998
Hernández, Ramona and Silvio Torres-Saillant. The
Dominican Americans. Greenwood
Press, 1998.
Levine, Barry B. The Caribbean Exodus. New York:
Praeger Publishers, 1987
Ornés, Fermán E. Trujillo: Little Caesar of the
Caribbean. Nelson, 1958
Roorda, Eric Paul. The Dictator Next Door. The
Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo
Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945.
Durham: Duke University Press,
1998
Schoomaker, Herbert G. Military Crisis
Management: United States Intervention in the
Dominican Republic, 1965. Greenwood Press, 1009
Wiarda, Howatd J. and Kryzanek, Michael J., The
Dominican Republic, a Caribbean
Crucible, Westview Press, 1992
GENERAL TRUJILLO:
"TÚ TAMBIÉN PIENSAS QUE ACAPARO FINCAS Y NEGOCIOS POR
ESPÍRITU DE LUCRO. SI ESAS EMPRESAS NO FUERAN DE LA
FAMILIA TRUJILLO, ESOS PUESTOS DE TRABAJO NO EXISTIRÍAN.
Y LA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA SERÍA EL PAISITO AFRICANO QUE
ERA CUANDO ME LO ECHÉ AL HOMBRO".
Jorge Alí Triana (left) giving directions to Actors,
Ricardo Barber, Anilú Pardo and Alejandra Orozco during
rehearsal process of production of “La Fiesta del Chivo”
at Repertorio Español. February 2003.
Photo by Michael Palma
René Sánchez rehearsing backstage for his role of Henry
Chirinos in the production of “La Fiesta del Chivo” at
Repertorio Español. February 2003.
Photo courtesy of El Comercio, Perú.