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The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Spanish: Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana or LIDOM) is a professional baseball winter league consisting of six teams spread across the Dominican Republic; it is the highest level of professional baseball played in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic national baseball team (Spanish: Selección de béisbol de República Dominicana) is the national baseball team of the Dominican Republic. The team has won the Baseball World Cup in 1948 and World Baseball Classic in 2013. They are the first team to have won both world competitions.
Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal (Spanish for Quisqueya Stadium Juan Marichal) [a] is a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.It is the only stadium in the Caribbean region to host two different baseball teams, Tigres del Licey (Licey Tigers) and Leones del Escogido (Chosen One Lions).
Cumbre de las Américas – Panamá; Visita del Secretario de Estado John Kerry a Cuba; Visita histórica del Papa Francisco a Cuba; Elecciones Presidenciales y Congresuales en Haití (2015) Juicio histórico al Ex Nuncio de la República Dominicana – Joseph Wesolowski; Visita histórica del presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, a Cuba.
Caracol Televisión, as it is known today, began to take shape in 1954, when the Organization Radiodifusora Caracol offered to the Televisora Nacional (the then only TV channel in Colombia later turned into Inravisión, today RTVC Sistema de Medios Publicos) a formula to sustain its operation by means of the concession of certain programming spaces for commercial exploitation.
The governing body is the Federación Dominicana de Fútbol. The Liga Dominicana de Fútbol is the top division of the Federación Dominicana de Fútbol. There have been a couple of FIFA Goal Programme projects that have been designed to further improve the infrastructure and facilities in the country in recent years.
The channel was first aired on August 1, 1952 with the name La Voz Dominicana. This was the first television transmitter of its kind in the country and the fifth [2] in Latin America, after Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and Argentina. The original owner was José Arismendy Trujillo (Petán), brother of the notorious dictator Rafael Trujillo (d. 1961). [3]
Diario Libre is a free daily Spanish-language Dominican newspaper, founded on May 10, 2001. It is owned by the Dominican business Grupo Diario Libre, and it is part of the Latin American Newspaper Association.