 Rafael Trujillo , known also as The Goat , The Chief , and The Benefactor , is a fictionalized character based on the real dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961 and the official President of the Republic from 1930 to 1938 and 1943 to 1952 . In The Feast of the Goat , Vargas Llosa imagines the innermost thoughts of the dictator , and retells The Goat 's last hours from his own perspective . Trujillo 's character struggles with aging and the physical problems of incontinence and impotence . Through fictional events and first person narrative , the reader is given insight into the man who , during his " thirty @-@ one years of horrendous political crimes " , modernized the country 's infrastructure and military , but whose regime 's attacks against its enemies overseas ( particularly the attempted assassination of Rómulo Betancourt , president of Venezuela ) led to the imposition of economic sanctions on the Dominican Republic by the Organization of American States in the 1950s . The resultant economic downturn , in conjunction with other factors , leads to the CIA supported assassination plot that ends Trujillo 's life on May 30 , 1961 . 
 Rafael Trujillo , known also as The Goat , The Chief , and The Benefactor , <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a fictionalized character based on the real dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961 and the official President of the Republic from 1930 to 1938 and 1943 to 1952 . In The Feast of the Goat , Vargas Llosa <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>imagines</mark></a> the innermost thoughts of the dictator , and <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>retells</mark></a> The Goat <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>last hours from his own perspective . Trujillo <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>character <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>struggles</mark></a> with aging and the physical problems of incontinence and impotence . Through fictional events and first person narrative , the reader is given insight into the man <a href='null_relcl' title='7'><mark>who</mark></a>, during his " thirty @-@ one years of horrendous political crimes " , modernized the country <a href='null_genetive' title='8'><mark>'s</mark></a>infrastructure and military , but whose regime <a href='null_genetive' title='9'><mark>'s</mark></a>attacks against its enemies overseas ( particularly the attempted assassination of Rómulo Betancourt , president of Venezuela ) led to the imposition of economic sanctions on the Dominican Republic by the Organization of American States in the 1950s . The resultant economic downturn , in conjunction with other factors , <a href='uninflect' title='10'><mark>leads</mark></a> to the CIA supported assassination plot <a href='null_relcl' title='11'><mark>that</mark></a><a href='uninflect' title='12'><mark>ends</mark></a> Trujillo <a href='null_genetive' title='13'><mark>'s</mark></a>life on May 30 , 1961 . 
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