Rhode Island Latino History | TIMELINE: 1960 to 1979
The U.S. Census form does not collect numbers of Hispanics in Rhode Island, listing only “White” and “Other” as it releases population data.
Rafael Trujillo is shot and killed when his blue 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air is ambushed on a road outside Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
The U.S. Census Bureau counts 5,596 Hispanics in Rhode Island.
Colombian police seize 600 kilograms of cocaine from a small plane. Drug traffickers respond with a vendetta, killing 40 people in one weekend in what's known as the "Medellin Massacre."
In 1984, Patricia Martínez becomes Executive Director.
With tensions mounting in El Salvador and the country on the verge of an insurrection, the civil-military Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) ideposes President Gen. Carlos Humberto Romero in a coup.
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