Juan Bosch
First democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic (1909-2001)
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- 1909
- Died
- 2001
- Works
- 147
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- Viaje a los antípodas
- El próximo paso
- Cuentos escritos en el exilio y Apuntes sobre el arte de escribir cuentos
- La mañosa
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- Germany
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Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño (30 June 1909 – 1 November 2001), also known as El Profesor (Spanish for the Teacher), was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for seven months in 1963.
Juan Bosch was a leading opponent against the dictatorial regime of Rafael Trujillo, spending over two decades as the leader of the Dominican opposition while in exile. In 1939, he helped found the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and returned to the Dominican Republic months after Trujillo's assassination in 1961, winning the first free elections in decades. In 1973, he founded the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). He is remembered as an honest politician and regarded as one of the most prominent short-story writers in Dominican literature.
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