195:. In 1933, Brache returned to Santo Domingo to become Finance Secretary. He was re-appointed Ambassador to the United States in November 1934, presenting his credentials the following month. Brache's second term in Washington was largely devoted to improving Trujillo's public reputation, which had suffered due to reports of political assassinations and censorship of the media. Brache argued publicly and privately that the Dominican government was being unfairly criticised, and praised Trujillo's personal accomplishments. In a 1935 address to the
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November 1935, apparently due to rumours of involvement with some of Trujillo's exiled opponents. He was summoned back to the Dominican Republic to face a government tribunal, but chose to remain in the United States and eventually had his passport revoked.
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in March 1936, although his resignation was refused. In
November 1937, the National Congress declared he and three others to be "unworthy Dominicans" and "traitors to the homeland". This was in response to their public condemnation of Trujillo's attempted genocide of Haitians (the
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when he was a small child, and attended school there. He followed his older brother ElĂas into politics, becoming chairman of the local municipal council at the age of 21. In 1914, aged 25, Brache was elected to represent La Vega in the
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suggested that he had downplayed or misrepresented Brache's connections with
Trujillo. In response, Perez implied that the article had been produced as an attempt to smear him while he was under consideration for the
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