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The 1963 Dominican coup d'état was a coup d'état that took place on 25 September 1963 against President Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic.Juan Bosch had been the first democratically elected president after the assassination of the former dictator Rafael Trujillo, but he faced criticism due to his policies, which were seen as leftist.
Carlos Enrique Rubio was born on November 27, 1981, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.When he was 8, his mother died, and when he was 13, his father died. He studied criminal law at the National School of the Judiciary and was trained as an Anti-Money Laundering consultant in the United States. [3]
Maximiliano Gómez Horacio (May 5, 1943 – May 23, 1971) was a Dominican leader who led the Maoist Movimiento Popular Dominicano (MPD), [1] a militant organization opposed to the Joaquín Balaguer government and to U.S. presence in the Dominican Republic. Knicknamed El Moreno, he was commended by some, repudiated by others, the controversial ...
A day later, OAS members established the Inter-American Peace Force (IAPF) with the goal of serving as a peacekeeping formation in the Dominican Republic. The IAPF had 1,748 Brazilian, Paraguayan , Nicaraguan , Costa Rican , Salvadoran and Honduran troops and was headed by Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, with US Army General Bruce Palmer ...
Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez (born 22 February 1941) is a Dominican politician who served as President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004.. During his presidential term in office the country was affected by one of its worst economic crises, generated by the bankruptcy of three major commercial banks in the country, which resulted in high inflation, high country risk rating ...
By 2016, the PLD has retained the presidency of the Dominican Republic for 16 out of the previous 20 years, and has become the only party in the Dominican Republic to have attained this achievement in the country's democratic history after the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo which lasted between 1930 until 1961. [citation needed]
El Nacional is a Dominican newspaper founded in 1966 by Dr. Rafael Molina Morillo, who was president/owner of Ahora! Publications. [ 2 ] The online version of the newspaper was founded on July 17, 1997.
On 3 January 2018, Ronald Güemes and Erika Palacios were the first people to be prosecuted under the Law Against Hatred; both were arrested when a neighborhood protest was taking place against the government of Nicolás Maduro and they were arrested by the Naguanagua police command.