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01-06-2009, 02:11 PM
The Executive Branch has officially named 2009 as the Year of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Juan Bosch, the late poet, novelist and thinker who served as President of the Dominican Republic for seven months (Feb-Sept 1963) and founded the ruling PLD party. Decree 247-08 highlights that Bosch is an unsurpassable point of reference for politics and morals in the DR, a source of national pride, a political mentor and humanist of great sensibility and firm convictions. Bosch was born on 30 June 1909 and died on 1 November 2001. He was survived by his widow Carmen Quidiello.
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