The 15 most notorious rulers and dictators in history of the world (With Pictures)

9. Rafael Trujillo

No notorious dictators come without their trustworthy inner circles of advisers, and Rafael Trujillo chose his wisely. On second thought, maybe he didn’t; he appointed his 3-year-old son as colonel.

Trujillo took over the Dominican Republic after being trained by the US Marines. He orchestrated thousands of killings of civilians, a lot of whom were Haitians. He considered his slaughtering a “remedy” to his unquenchable thirst for blood, apparently.

Many of his killings were determined by the victims ability to pronounce certain words with a trill, or in other words, a rolling “r” to determine if they were “real Dominicans.” What a sadist.