Dominican Republic
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The Dominican Republic is an island country on the eastern part of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a maritime bor
Catedral Santa María La Menor is the oldest cathedral built in the Americas.
In 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte and others established a secret patriotic society called La Trinitaria, which helped undermine Haitian occupation.
Monument built by Dominicans in 1944, commemorating the participants of the War of Restoration
The flag of the United States waving over Ozama Fortress during the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic, c. 1922
Luis Abinader
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Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who has served as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020. He was the Modern Revolutionary Party cand
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…government corruption and a weak justice system threatened to overshadow their administrative period. He was succeeded by the opposition candidate Luis Abinader in the 2020 election (weeks after protests erupted in the country against Medina's government), marking the end to 16 years in power of the centre-left…
Abinader in 2024
Abinader in 2011
Abinader (second from the right) with Hipólito Mejía, Tavito Suberví and Fello Suberví
Inauguration ceremony, 16 August 2020