Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.

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.

I think the answer is the first one. It is always important to note that when psychopaths rule there is always going to be a loss of life. Most dictators are not benevolent.

However, you could pick C or D. It depends on your point of view.

I'll stick with A

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linaajeenah linaajeenah · Answer 2 · 2022-05-16T12:12:20+02:00

Answer:

It’s A

Explanation:

The excerpt is talking about how cruel the dictatorship has been, and one way you can say that is seeing how much deaths were part of the process. You can see written “Thousands of lives were lost for the sake of democratic rule” which means many people risked their lives to return to democracy, which instead resulted in many deaths than a democratic nation.

Ur welcome, correct me if I’m wrong :)

brainliest? if it’s correct of course :D