Juan Bosch
Biography
Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño was born on 30 June 1909, in La Vega, Dominican Republic. He was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for a brief time in 1963. Previously, he had been the leader of the Dominican opposition in exile to the dictatorial regime of Rafael Trujillo for over 25 years. To this day, he is remembered as an honest politician and regarded as one of the most prominent writers in Dominican literature. He founded both the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) in 1939 and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in 1973. He passed away on 1 November 2001, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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