Top 10 Top 10 Heroes & Villains
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1. Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
Visionary explorer or deluded gold hunter? Opinions remain mixed on the man who started the Spanish colony.
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2. Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474–1566)
Courageous priest who protested against the Spanish extermination of the Tainos to the King of Spain.
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3. Enriquillo (1498–1535)
Leader of the last Taino revolt against the Spanish.
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4. Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596)
Hated in the Spanish world as a Protestant bigot.
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5. Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776–1850)
Power-hungry Haitian president who ordered the 1821 invasion, abolishing slavery but imposing a military rule.
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6. Juan Pablo Duarte (1813–1873)
The revered father of the Dominican nation, a patriot who freed his country.
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7. Ulíses Heureaux (1845–1899)
Dictator (1882–1899), who tried to sell the Germans a naval station in Samaná.
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8. Trujillo (1891–1961)
The nastiest dictator of them all ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitians in 1937.
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9. María Montez (1912–1951)
Glamorous Barahona-born actress, who made it big in Hollywood in the 1940s.
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10. Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002)
A politician who didn’t like losing, won six dubious elections from 1966 to 1994.
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