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	Balaguer, Joaquín on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Balaguer, unable to control the chaos following the assassination, was ousted by the military in Jan., 1962.
		Exiled until 1965, he returned at the time of the U.S. military intervention, and won the presidency in 1966 and again, in elections boycotted by the opposition, in 1970 and 1974.
		Advanced in age and blind, he was reelected in 1986, 1990, and 1994 on a conservative platform, but the 1994 election was so marred by fraud that opposition protests and international pressure forced Balaguer to agree to resign after an abbreviated two-year term.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Balaguer.asp (353 words)

	Joaquin Turina -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Joaquin Miller was the penname of the hyperbolical American eccentric Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller (September 8, 1837, or November 10, 1841 - February 17, 1913).
		Joaquin came back into public view under tragic circumstances — he was the person who dialled 9-1-1 when his brother River suffered a fatal drug overdose outside Hollywood nightclub ''The Viper Room''.
		Joaquin was reluctant to re-enter the world of acting, but he did so at the insistence of his friends.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/81/joaquin-turina.html (1592 words)

	Dominican Republic Political Developments since 1978 - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, ...
		That year Balaguer, who had governed the country in an authoritarian, but paternalistic, manner for the preceding twelve years, was forced, because of domestic and international pressures, to yield the presidency to Guzmán, a wealthy rancher and candidate of the PRD, who had clearly won the election.
		Many associated Balaguer with the economic boom of the 1970s; in addition, he was widely admired as a shrewd, resourceful, and skilled politician.
		Balaguer delegated some limited power and patronage to subordinates, but he kept most of the reins of power in his own hands; he let cabinet and autonomous agency heads have a bit of responsibility, while he maintained control of the allimportant jobs--patronage, money, and military matters.
	www.photius.com /countries/dominican_republic/government/dominican_republic_government_political_developmen~1466.html (844 words)

	Joaquin Balaguer Article, JoaquinBalaguer Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He had been a protégé of Rafael Trujillo, and was accused of election fraud and of intimidatingwould-be opponents.
		Balaguer was born in the Dominican Republic from a Dominican fater and a Puerto Rican mother.
		Balaguer studied law at the Sorbonne, then returned to the Dominican Republic and started working for Trujilloin 1930.
	www.anoca.org /he/dominican/joaquin_balaguer.html (289 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Joaquin Balaguer
		Balaguer, Joaquín (1906?-2002), Dominican president (1960-1962, 1966-1978, and 1986-1996), born in Santiago and educated in Santo Domingo and Paris....
		President Joaquín Balaguer had assumed office in 1960 as a Trujillo puppet.
		Miller, Joaquin, pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (1839-1913), American poet, born in Indiana.
	encarta.msn.com /Joaquin_Balaguer.html (116 words)

	Reflections on the Political Life of Joaquin Balaguer (1906-2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Joaquin Balaguer became President of the Dominican Republic at that pointing 1960, until the dictator was suddenly assassinated May 1961.
		Balaguer was unable to control the military and his government was overthrown in January 1962.
		Balaguer was reelected President on the Social Christian Reform party of the Dominican Republic in free elections in 1966, and reelected in 1970 and 1974, although opposition forces boycotted the reelection campaigns.
	paulcooijmans.lunarpages.com /papyrus/brizel/bala.html (1015 words)

	americas.org - Balaguer May Not Step Down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Balaguer, who has held his office for 30 years, is not a candidate, his backers are plastering the country with slogans in his support.
		Despite national and international charges of fraud in the 1994 presidential election, Balaguer was declared the winner of a sixth four-year term.
		In August 1994, Balaguer signed the “Pact for Democracy,” agreeing to reduce his current term to two years and barring him from running again.
	www.americas.org /item_12567 (241 words)

	Dominican Republic Joaquín Balaguer, 1966-78 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		This trepidation aided Balaguer, who also appealed to conservative voting sectors such as peasants, women (considered to be more religious than men), and businesspeople.
		Balaguer thus won handily, garnering 57 percent of the vote in balloting held July 1, 1966.
		Clearly, Balaguer was attempting to nullify the balloting or to falsify the results in his favor.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/dominican_republic/dominican_republic_history_joaquin_balaguer_1966_78.html (466 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Questions Of Balaguer's Nationality, Offspring Arise After Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Balaguer, who dominated Dominican politics for more than a generation, died July 14 from heart failure at a Santo Domingo clinic.
		Balaguer's collaborators and some Dominican writers have said, however, that the former president - who was also a prolific author, poet and composer - had six or seven children.
		Balaguer never married, but legally adopted his nephew Joaquin Balaguer.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n32/QsBelaguersNatio-en.shtml (570 words)

	Joaquín Balaguer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Balaguer fue llevado en la República Dominicana de un fater dominicano y de una madre de Puerto Rican.
		Balaguer estudió ley en el Sorbonne, después volvió a la República Dominicana y comenzó a trabajar para Trujillo en 1930.
		Balaguer nunca no casó y tenía a ningún niño; a una hermana lo sobrevivió.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/jo/Joaqu%EDn%20Balaguer.htm (320 words)

	Joaquin Balaguer
		Joaquin Balaguer (September 1, 1906 - July 14, 2002) was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996.
		He had been a protege of Rafael Trujillo, and was accused of election fraud and of intimidating would-be opponents.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joaquin_Balaguer.html (175 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
		Hartlyn 1998: "Balaguer was officially proclaimed the presidential candidate for the PR(SC) on January 6, 1994, and was given freedom to determine his vice presidential candidate and the candidates for major congressional and mayoral posts" (page 238).
		However, Balaguer was able to win over one of the senators elected by the PRD coalition, which with the support of the PLD senator gave him the sixteen votes he needed.
		Balaguer finally acquiesced, and a special presidential election was set for 1996, with the incumbent, Balaguer, excluded from re-election.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/dominicanrepublic/1990.html (5621 words)

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		OAS sanctions were lifted January 4, and, after the resignation of President Joaquin Balaguer on January 16, the council, under President Rafael E. Bonnelly, became the effective Dominican Government.
		President Balaguer, leader of the Reformist Party (now called the Social Christian Reformist Party--PRSC), was then re-elected to office in May 1970 and May 1974, both times after major opposition parties withdrew late in the campaign.
		Balaguer returned to the presidency with electoral victories in 1986 and 1990.
	users.libero.it /magikea/history.htm (1170 words)

	elpais.es - Edición Impresa - Internacional - Muere Joaquín Balaguer, el político que ...
		Balaguer, que gobernó la República Dominicana con un estilo autoritario y paternalista al mismo tiempo, seguía siendo el personaje más influyente en la vida política del país.
		Odiado y amado a partes iguales, Balaguer, hijo de catalán, fue repetidamente acusado de asesinatos y desapariciones de centenares de opositores de izquierda durante sus gobiernos, especialmente durante los llamados sangrientos doce años, de 1966 a 1978.
		Balaguer inició su vida pública a finales de los años veinte.
	www.udel.edu /leipzig/270500/ela150702.htm (652 words)

	Murió el siete veces presidente Joaquín Balaguer 15-07-02
		SANTO DOMINGO.- Joaquín Balaguer, omnipresente en la vida política de República Dominicana por siete décadas, en los que fue siete veces presidente, falleció a los 95 años víctima de un paro cardíaco en Santo Domingo.
		Balaguer, uno de los viejos caudillos del continente y ampliamente conocido en Latinoamérica, decidió la victoria de Leonel Fernández en las elecciones de 1996.
		Balaguer siempre gobernó con mano de hierro, y en sus últimas administraciones se preocupó por emprender obras faraónicas que cambiaron la faz de Santo Domingo.
	www.rionegro.com.ar /arch200207/p15s08.html (477 words)

	Daily Telegraph (London, England): Obituary of Joaquin Balaguer; President of the Dominican Republic who built a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Obituary of Joaquin Balaguer; President of the Dominican Republic who built a memorial to Columbus and was re-elected six times.(News)(Obituary)
		JOAQUIN BALAGUER, who died yesterday aged 94, was president of the Dominican Republic seven times, and triumphed over blindness and the frailties of old age.
		In 1994, a sightless octogenarian beset by high blood pressure and illness, he was elected for the last time, determined to overcome economic problems threatening his Caribbean country.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:88986968&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (216 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Dominican Republic ex-leader Balaguer dies
		Under Balaguer, the Dominican Republic was one of the biggest U.S. aid recipients in the Caribbean.
		Joaquin Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was born Sept. 1, 1906, the northwestern town of Navarrete, now called Villa Bosono.
		Balaguer returned and, with U.S. backing, was elected president in 1966.
	www.lossless-audio.com /usa/2058775808.htm (715 words)

	SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Dominican Republic : Elections and events 1995-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cassa 1997: Balaguer "engineered the rejection of the PRD proposal that a 40% plurality in the first round would be sufficient to avoid a runoff, and insisted on the second-round concept.
		Mr Balaguer, the dominant figure of Dominican politics since the restoration of democracy in 1966, was personally close to Mr Mejía…As new leaders attempt to stamp their authority on the PRSC, the party is likely to take a less co-operative stance towards the government" (page 1).
		Balaguer was an ally of former dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930-1961) and was elected president six times after Trujillo's assassination in 1961…Some analysts believe that Balaguer's death leaves a political vacuum that could develop into a leadership crisis within the PRSC" (electronic edition).
	dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/dominican/1995dom.htm (5485 words)

	Joaquin Balaguer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		En el segundo periodo del Dr. Balaguer, los militares habían tomado conciencia de que no era posible reeditar la dictadura y comenzaron a apoyar sin restricción al nuevo caudillo, que había dado muestras de ser un inteligente y recio gobernante.
		Sin querer justificar al Dr. Balaguer, el autor de estas líneas piensa: que esta fue una maniobra política, que le permitió al líder reformista consolidarse en el poder, así como consolidar la democracia en nuestro país.
		Balaguer del poder se llevo a cabo un acuerdo entre diferentes fuerzas políticas, llamado Acuerdo de Santiago.
	www.27febrero.com /balaguer.htm (3455 words)

	CNN.com - Mejia declared victor in Dominican election - May 18, 2000
		Balaguer, the third-place candidate, told Medina he was unable to guarantee that his Social Christian Reformist Party could deliver enough votes to give Medina a second-round win, Pared said.
		Balaguer's and Medina's parties had been widely expected to unite in a run-off, as they did in 1996 when their combined efforts helped the Liberation Party's Leonel Fernandez narrowly defeat the Revolutionary Party's Jose Francisco Pena Gomez.
		Even Balaguer, who was seven times president of this Caribbean nation for most of the last 40 years until 1996, had seemed convinced that Mejia might win, shaking his hand in congratulations during a Wednesday afternoon meeting at Balaguer's house.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/05/18/dominican.election.01 (759 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; April 12, 1996
		For the first time in 30 years, the 89-year-old Balaguer, who is almost completely blind, deaf, and in ill health, is not a candidate in the presidential race.
		Balaguer backed Peynado for the party nomination in January and called on the party to unify behind its candidate.
		Bosch defeated Balaguer for the presidency in 1963, but was ousted that same year in a coup.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h96/notisur.19960412.html (6143 words)

	The Dominican Republic 2000: Country Report
		Balaguer, who is now 93 years old, was subpoenaed but declined to testify on health grounds, although he was healthy enough to run for president again in 2000.
		The August judgment was seen as a major victory for the journalist's family and others who demanded justice for press freedom and other human rights violations committed under Balaguer, president of the Dominican Republic for 22 of the last 40 years.
		González, a strong critic of the Dominican government and military, was allegedly "disappeared" by the latter after he publicly criticized the tainted elections that brought Balaguer to power.
	www.cpj.org /attacks00/americas00/Dominican.html (527 words)

	Dominican Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For reasons never fully explained, Guzmán committed suicide in July 1982; he was said to have been depressed by allegations of corruption and nepotism in his administration.
		With the election and peaceful return to power of Balaguer in 1986, a tradition of fair electoral competition appeared to be developing; democracy seemed to be taking root in the Dominican Republic.
		Balaguer maintained a tight grip on power until international reaction to flawed elections forced him to curtail his term in 1996.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/20th/dominican.html (843 words)

	R. Dominicana: libros de ex presidente Joaquín Balaguer son fenómeno editorial
		El ex presidente dominicano y escritor Joaquín Balaguer, fallecido el pasado domingo de un paro cardiaco y enterrado en la madrugada del jueves, se ha transformado en todo un fenómeno editorial en su país, donde sus obras se agotaron en la mayor parte de las librerías.
		El general Enrique Pérez y Pérez, uno de los principales colaboradores de Balaguer, sostiene que la página en blanco obedece a una "campaña" del ex mandatario para vender más libros.
		Balaguer escribió sus más destacados libros durante sus 22 años como presidente constitucional de República Dominicana.
	www.cooperativa.cl /p4_noticias/site/artic/20020721/pags/20020721110000.html (335 words)

	Actualícese con La Prensa Web
		Balaguer había sido ingresado en la Clínica Abreu de Santo Domingo el pasado 4 de julio, debido a una hemorragia gastrointestinal.
		Balaguer, que estaba desde hace años ciego y parcialmente paralizado, fue presidente dominicano en siete ocasiones, y fundador y presidente del Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) hasta su fallecimiento.
		El cadáver de Balaguer fue llevado desde la clínica hasta la funeraria para ser embalsamado y posteriormente llevado a su residencia en un cortejo fúnebre que fue acompañado por cientos de emocionados seguidores.
	mensual.prensa.com /mensual/contenido/2002/07/15/hoy/portada/633054.html (305 words)

	Joaquin Balaguer y Ricardo Biography / Biography of Joaquin Balaguer y Ricardo Biography Biography
		An author and politician, Joaquin Balaguer (born 1907) served seven nonconsecutive terms as president of the Dominican Republic between 1960 and 1996.
		Joaquin Balaguer y Ricardo was born on September 1, 1907.
		During the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo Molina, Balaguer gained recognition both as a scholar and as a government official.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-joaquin-balaguer-y-ricardo (244 words)

	JBalaguer
		Balaguer’s professional career encompasses over 25 years in commercial banking and payment systems.
		Balaguer worked in the main office of Visa International, Latin America and Caribbean region, where he reached the position of Senior Vice President of the Operations and Support Division for all Visa Member Banks in the region.
		Balaguer joined Banco Popular Dominicano where he held the positions of Vice President in the Personal Banking Area and Executive Vice President of Credomatic Popular, Dominican Republic.
	jbalaguer.com /maineng/experience/jbalaguer2.htm (160 words)

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