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Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño (30 June 1909 – 1 November 2001) was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for a brief time in 1963.
Juan Bosch was a Dominican writer, scholar, and politician elected president of the Dominican Republic in 1962 but deposed less than a year later. Bosch, an intellectual, was an early opponent of Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorial regime. He went into exile in 1937 and in 1939 founded the leftist.
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He founded two powerful political parties and was instrumental in transforming the Dominican Republic from a closed society controlled by a wealthy, conservative elite, to an open democracy.
Nov 2, 2001 · Juan Bosch, a prolific writer who in December 1962 became the first freely elected president of the Dominican Republic in 38 years -- only to be toppled by a military coup after seven months in...
- Popularity Led to Presidency
- Reforms Led to His Overthrow
- Further Reading
Bosch emerged as one of the two major candidates in the first post-Trujillo election at the end of 1962, becoming president in February 1963. During his seven months inoffice Bosch sought to set a model for democratic government. He encouraged wide organization of the labor and peasant movements, sponsored passage of an agrarian reformlaw, and fina...
Dominican military leaders, unaccustomed to the "turbulence" of a democratic regime, overthrew Bosch in September 1963. He went into exile in Puerto Rico. When a revolt broke out in Santo Domingo in April 1965, seeking to restore Bosch to power, he gave it his blessing but made no serious attempt to return home. The uprising was frustrated by Unite...
Gutierrez, Carlos Maria. The Dominican Republic: Rebellion and Repression(1972); Pons, Frank M. The Dominican Republic: A National History(1994). □
Nov 2, 2001 · Juan Bosch, a former president of the Dominican Republic whose name is forever linked to the U.S. invasion of that island nation in 1965, died Thursday in Santo Domingo after a long...
Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño (30 June 1909 – 1 November 2001) was a politician, historian, short story writer, essayist, and educator. He was the first democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic in 38 years.
