Because it is seen as an insult towards this character, a doctor in one novel is arrested after joking about there being bodies in his trunk. Threats from this character’s Volkswagen-driving employees are described in the third part of a novel that ends by describing snow falling in New York. This man is described as “our Sauron, our Arawn, (15[1])our Darkseid” in a novel in which this man’s brother-in-law Dionisio dates Beli, who is then beaten in a (*) cane field. Dedé tells the story of her sisters who were killed (10[1])after opposing this man in In the Time of the Butterflies. (10[1])This man’s regime is fled by the title characters of the novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. In another novel, Yunior links this leader to the fuku curse on his sci-fi-loving roommate Oscar Wao. For 10 points, Junot Diaz’s novels often feature what dictator of the Dominican Republic? ■END■