Topic: Joaquin Balaguer
The Dominican Republic covers the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti. Cap. Santo Domingo. Monetary unit: Campaigning for the May 1996 presidential elections dominated the activities of the political parties in 1995 as they prepared ...
The central event in the Dominican Republic was the election on May 16, 2000, of Hipolito Mejia Dominguez to the presidency. Although Mejia roundly defeated his opponents-Danilo Medina of the incumbent Dominican Liberation Party and former president Joaquin Balaguer of the Social ...
The following discussion focuses on the history of the Dominican Republic from the time of European settlement. The Haitians evicted the main French army from the western part of the island, but Dominican colonists and British forces, in turn, drove the Haitians ...
In 1963 Juan Bosch and his moderately reformist Dominican Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Dominicano; PRD) took power; he was the first directly elected democratic and progressive president in the country's history. Balaguer became one of the main national figures for the ...
The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy whose current constitution was promulgated in 2010. The 32-member Senate is composed of one representative from each province and one from the National District. The size of the Chamber of Deputies is proportional to the ...
As secretary of education under Hector Trujillo, brother of dictator General Rafael Trujillo, he established free universities and expanded educational and library facilities. He was sworn in as president when Hector Trujillo resigned because of illness. After Rafael Trujillo's assassination in ...
Dead Presidents Among Thousands Cleared From Dominican Voter RollsTwo Dominican presidents did more than cast shadows over the nation's politics after their deaths _ they remained eligible voters.Election officials came across late Presidents Juan Bosch and Joaquin Balaguer, both of ...
