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08-03-2009, 05:30 PM
The sailboat that civil war legend Francisco Alberto Caamano Deno used to come ashore at Caracoles Beach in southwestern Azua with eight guerilla military troops in February 1973 has been officially retired. Caamano landed with the rebels intending to start a peasant revolution to overthrow the late President Joaquin Balaguer and restore the late President Juan Bosch to government. Instead he did not find sufficient support and would be wounded, captured and executed by government forces. Bosch, while democratically-elected, had been overthrown in a CIA-sponsored military coup d'etat in September 1963.
President Leonel Fernandez ordered the boat, nicknamed "Black Jack" that had sunk in Andres, Boca Chica near Los Pinos, to be restored. It will be exhibited at the Fundacion Caamano museum, at Calle Dr. Delgado.
The sailboat was originally bought in Antigua for US$40,000.
Chief of the Navy, Homero Luis Lajara Sola, said the goal is to restore the ship back to its original state. It will be resored at the Astilleros Navales shipyard, of the Navy in Las Calderas, Bani.
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President Leonel Fernandez ordered the boat, nicknamed "Black Jack" that had sunk in Andres, Boca Chica near Los Pinos, to be restored. It will be exhibited at the Fundacion Caamano museum, at Calle Dr. Delgado.
The sailboat was originally bought in Antigua for US$40,000.
Chief of the Navy, Homero Luis Lajara Sola, said the goal is to restore the ship back to its original state. It will be resored at the Astilleros Navales shipyard, of the Navy in Las Calderas, Bani.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)