Dominican Rep.

1990The bickering between Saint Lucia and the Dominican Republic over banana exports to the United Kingdom, a traditional and main market staple for the former, is finally worked out.

1990. Social and economic situation went on to deteriorate in the country. The recession the nation has plunged into back in 1990 was still there. Joblessness accrued, inflation went up while agricultural output and mineral extraction dipped.

1985. In 1985, the shrinking of the Dominican sugar quota granted by the United States caused a export depression. Unemployment skyrocketed and let to a new social upheaval.

1981. New presidential elections were held on May 16, 1981 and Salvador Jorge Blanco was elected president, a win also for the Dominican Revolutionary Party. José Francisco Peña Gómez, one of the Latin American leaders in the International Socialist, was elected mayor of Santo Domingo.
On July 4, exiting president Antonio Guzman’s suicide led to a tense situation eventually worked out with the army’s support to the electoral outcomes.

1973. A nationalist opposition tried out several struggling ways and in 1973 Francisco Caamaño dies as he was leading a guerrilla group.

1966The current Constitution was officially proclaimed -quite similar to the one enacted in 1844- as the first that ever went into effect on the island nation. Its most basic articles anoint the rights and duties bestowed on the whole citizenship; it guarantees equal application of the law for all citizens; it prevents foreign residents from engaging in political activities.

1965. In April 1965, a civil war, headed by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño. The U.S. intervened once again by dispatching marine troops in May. The popular uprising was crushed by 35,000 invaders in 1965.

1963. After the popular rebellion was over, the country’s first-ever democratic elections were held and writer Juan Bosch wound up being the president. Seven months later, another coup toppled Mr. Bosch and put the old trujillistas military officers back in power.