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07-27-2011, 03:00 PM
President Leonel Fernandez was in Moca yesterday to inaugurate the Museo Presidente Ramon Caceres, the paving of several streets in the municipality of Cayetano Germosen and the construction of a new police station, for a total investment of RD$105 million. The works were inaugurated on the occasion of the 111th anniversary of the murder of dictator Ulises Heureaux by Ramon Caceres, in collaboration with Jacobo de Lara and Horacio Vasquez in 1899. The Museum is based in the house where "Mon" Caceres lived. Caceres was murdered on 19 November 1911. He was President of the Republic from 1906-1911. The government invested RD$65.8 million in the new museum that will be open to the general public as of 2 August, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 6pm.

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