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01-26-2007, 05:40 PM
Today is the 194th anniversary of the birth of Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic. Duarte was the founder of the underground society La Trinitaria and was also a member of the more public entity, La Filantropica, which used theater to spread separatist ideas. Through these societies Duarte and other Dominican patriots helped in the fight for independence from Haiti in 1844. Duarte was exiled to Caracas, Venezuela in 1843 and thus never got to see the proclamation of independence. He returned to the Dominican Republic soon after, only to be exiled once more in 1845. Duarte eventually died in Venezuela in 1876, at the age of 63, and his remains were brought back to the DR in 1884.
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