This text, Populism as Vernacular practice, deals with Rafael Trujillo, a far right dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years. Trujillo used various oppressive and brutal methods in order to instill fear in citizens of the Dominican Republic, such as abductions, arrests, surveillance, torture and murder. One thing that stuck with me is that when he got a sergeant who led an uprising against him killed, he ordered his corpse to be paraded in the streets and the sergeant's supporters were ordered to dance with said corpse. Paranoia became the national policy. While it is a custom that authoritarian and totalitarian leaders name things after themselves, Trujillo went a step further with the whole cult of personality practice. He was also supported by the United States, whose officials he bribed for PR. He had also established an image of himself as "the father of the nation". Trujillo was eventually assassinated in 1961.