Joaquin Balaguer

The Dominican Republic played a major role in the early history of NACLA, and it is therefore fitting that the

The U.S. press, by its lack of coverage, would have us believe that the Dominican epublic is no longer in

When Joaquin Balaguer was born on September 1, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, the Marines were occupying

According to James Goodsell's Christian Science Monitor article of March 14, 1967, written from Santo Domingo, this seems to be

By the early morning of May 17, 1978, it had become clear that the Revolutionary Dominican Party (PRD)-populist, social-democratic and

DOMINICAN PRESIDENT JOA- quin Balaguer has, surely, never been in any serious danger of being mistaken for a man of

In the eastern urban sprawl of Santo Domingo, a vast concrete cross-shaped structure is rising steadily into the capi- tal's

In the end it was their common enemy and perennial nemesis, Jos Francisco Pefia G6mez, who brought Joaquin Balaguer and

It is a constant refrain among observers of the Dominican Republic that the country is evolving toward "the consolidation of

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: LOSER TAKES ALL Allegations of fixed elections are still the norm for the Dominican Republic: while it seemed