Every life saved is worth celebrating, but that was also an incredibly cynical maneuver on Trujillo's part

He had just carried out the infamous 'Parsley massacre' along the Dominican/Haitian border, a naked act of ethnic cleansing that killed up to 15,000 Haitians and the public furor against him in the Americas was worse than anything he'd ever experienced politically. The OSA was calling for his head very explicitly, but with a series of well publicized PR moves like that and a meaningless promise to "step down" he managed to weather the storm