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NewsWhore
09-25-2008, 04:30 PM
On this day in 1963, Professor Juan Bosch was ousted from government in a coup d'etat that exiled the DR's first freely elected leader since the death of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Bosch vehemently opposed the Trujillo regime, and had been exiled for 20 years in Cuba, where he founded the PRD. Bosch was elected with a 59% majority out of the 1,054,944 Dominicans who voted.

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