Brache was a director of the party's newspaper, El Siglo ("The Century"),[2] and also served for periods as Chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Director-General of Immigration, and as a delegate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
[b] He told Cotton that Trujillo was a "very able man, a good organizer, very clever, intelligent and honest", and secured very reluctant approval for the new Dominican Government.
[10] A report was immediately sent back to Santo Domingo, and the following day Trujillo gave a major speech in which he publicly announced his election manifesto.
One contemporary commentator believed that Trujillo had already made a deal with the United States Government after the coup, and suggested that Branche had effectively been sent on a fool's errand.
[8] 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.
[7] In a 1935 address to the Pan-American Union, he praised Trujillo's "firm love of peace" and "eloquence of deeds", and said he was deserving of "the gratitude of the world".
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.
[2] In 1947, one of his sons, Rafael Jr., was involved in the abortive Cayo Confites expedition, in which Dominican and Cuban insurrectionaries (including a young Fidel Castro) sought to overthrow Trujillo by force.
[18] Most of Brache's children remained in the United States, and a grandson, Tom Perez, became Secretary of Labor in the Obama Administration and in 2017, he became the Democratic National Committee Chair.