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Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia
Alvarez.
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By the time my mother married my father, however, she
knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship.
Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to
return the country to democracy. Family friends, whom
she had assumed had dropped away of their own
accord, turned out to have been disappeared. My
father had been lucky. As a young man, he had
narrowly escaped to Canada after the plot he had
participated in as a student failed. This was to be the
first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El
Generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter of some
eighteen thousand Haitians, who had come across the
border to work on sugarcane plantations for slave
wages.
What is the central idea of this excerpt?
The dictatorship resulted in many deaths.
It was possible for people to escape to Canada.
Many people fought for a democratic nation.
The author's family was unusually lucky.

Answer 1

The brutal effect of dictatorship on the human race

Step-by-step explanation:

The central idea of the passage is about the effect of dictatorship on the lives of countless of people and how it had led to their end.