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  Dominican Republic 10.208   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Salvador Jorge Blanco was notified, through his attorneys, of Order Nº 116-87 of August 4, 1987, and he brought a remedy of appeal before the Court of Appeals, which gave its decision upholding the order on August 26, 1987.
Salvador Jorge Blanco was found in contempt of court because he has evaded the Dominican judicial system.
Jorge Blanco succeeded in escaping, and in the early morning of April 30, entered the Embassy of Venezuela requesting political asylum, which was denied to him.
www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/88.89eng/Dom.Rep.10.208.htm   (6719 words)

  
 Dominican Republic - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dominican Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The PRD was again successful in the 1982 election, and Salvador Jorge Blanco, the party's left-wing nominee, became president-designate.
Blanco steered a restrained course in foreign policy, maintaining good relations with the USA and avoiding too close an association with Cuba.
The economy deteriorated, and in 1985 the Blanco administration was forced to adopt harsh austerity measures in return for help from the International Monetary Fund.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Dominican+Republic   (1009 words)

  
 Fugitive Ex-Dominican Chief Apparently Has Heart Attack - New York Times
Jorge Blanco to a hospital described his condition as ''delicate.'' Fistfights erupted outside the hospital between Jorge Blanco followers and opponents after his arrival, but were brought under control by the police.
Jorge Blanco, 57 years old, is accused of being involved in an illegal purchase of goods for the military and the police while President.
Jorge Blanco might be taken to Miami if his condition does not improve and doctors decide he has to be taken out of the country.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DC173DF93AA35756C0A961948260   (292 words)

  
 Inter-American Human Rights Database
Salvador Jorge Blanco was notified, through his attorneys, of Order No. 116-87 of August 4, 1987, and he brought a remedy of appeal before the Court of Appeals, which gave its decision upholding the order on August 26, 1987.
The best way to demonstrate that the judicial proceedings against Salvador Jorge Blanco are not a matter of political persecution is to examine the substance of the charges and the evidence gathered.
Salvador Jorge Blanco informed this Commission that on November 30, 1988, the complainant had returned to the Dominican Republic and appeared before the courts.
www.wcl.american.edu /humright/digest/1988/res1589.cfm   (10270 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Dominican Republic
He died in July of that year, an apparent suicide, shortly after Senator Salvador Jorge Blanco, the PRD candidate, was elected to succeed him.
To rescue the country from its deepening economic crisis, Jorge Blanco turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which demanded that the Dominican government institute austerity measures in exchange for a three-year IMF loan package.
In 1988, Jorge Blanco was tried in absentia and found guilty of corruption during his presidential years.
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In June Channel 13 news reporter Jorge Lopez was dismissed, allegedly for reporting on a bank scandal in the print media.
Jorge Ubico's dictatorship was overthrown by the "October Revolutionaries,"a group of dissident military officers, students, and liberal professionals.
On May 9, CNE Justice Jorge Lazarte Rojas resigned in protest against perceived politicization of the electoral courts, specifically the alleged party quota-based nomination of departmental electoral judges.
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 US Department of State Bulletin: Visit of Dominican Republic president - Salvador Jorge Blanco - joint declarations - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
jorge Blanco, it's indeed an honor for me to welcome you, the first President of your country to make a state visit to the United States.
President Jorge Blanco, it is propitious that your visit coincides with Pan American Week, a time when we have for the last 53 years celebrated the ties between the peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
President Jorge Blanco, we in the United States are fully aware that the success of democratic institutions in your country is due to the good will and strenuous efforts of individuals like yourself.
calbears.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1079/is_v84/ai_3369229   (1278 words)

  
 Salvador Jorge Blanco - DR1 Forums
It is widely accepted that there was corruption in the Jorge Blanco government, but there was more corruption in the government that followed, that of former President Balaguer under whose government Jorge Blanco was prosecuted.
The government of Jorge Blanco was a major disappointment.
Jorge Blanco was elected into government with the promise of a clean government (he even paid the highway tolls), and this was true during his first two years of government.
www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3473   (310 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of Sebastian Mera Alonso
of Asela Mera Checo and José Jorge Blanco are:
Jorge Mera, born Noviembre 22, 1966 in Santiago.
Dilia Leticia Jorge Mera, born Diciembre 21, 1971 in Santiago.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/g/o/n/Julio-A-Gonzalez/GENE14-0009.html   (874 words)

  
 Toasts of President Reagan and President Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican Republic at the State Dinner
President Jorge Blanco and his lovely wife represent a country rich in history, blessed with natural beauty, and filled with creative and robust people.
President Jorge Blanco, we honor you tonight for the part that you and your country are playing in the cause of human freedom.
President Jorge Blanco spoke in Spanish, and a text of his remarks in English was provided to the dinner guests.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1984/41084f.htm   (1206 words)

  
 SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Dominican Republic : Elections and events 1970-1989   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jorge Blanco, a favorite with the urban and rural poor, was more in tune with those in the party who felt that the present administration had betrayed the PRD's commitment to social reform" (page 545).
Jorge Blanco was elected president, and the PRD gained a majority in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico 1987, 2: "The former president, Salvador Jorge Blanco, accused of corruption and especially of receiving illegal commssions, estimated to total some $3.5mn, on the purchase of military vehicles, recently decided that discretion was the better part of valour and took refuge in the Venezuelan Embassy in Santo Domingo.
dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/dominican/1970dom.htm   (8855 words)

  
 CNN.com - Former Dominican president called to testify in murder investigation - September 28, 2000
Officials of Jorge Blanco's Revolutionary Party, the party of current President Hipolito Mejia, have denied any involvement and say the recent reopening of the case is a political ploy.
Lawyers for de Camps and Jorge Blanco filed a motion last week to remove the judge from the case because he was a member of the opposition Liberation Party before taking the bench, Listin reported.
Jorge Blanco was charged, tried and convicted of misappropriation of government funds after he left office in 1986, but he was pardoned by the National Congress.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/28/dominican.ex.president.ap   (419 words)

  
 USHispano... Rep.Dominicana
Salvador Jorge Blanco fue elegido presidente y con él volvió a triunfar el Partido Revolucionario Dominicano.
El presidente Blanco heredó un déficit de la balanza comercial de 562 millones de dólares en 1982, motivado por la caída del precio del azúcar y el alza del petróleo; la deuda externa ascendía a los 2.000 millones de dólares y la desocupación afectaba a 25% de la población activa.
En julio de 1988 fue condenado por estafa el ex presidente Jorge Blanco, quien pese a las requisitorias judiciales vendía armas a sobreprecio a las fuerzas armadas.
ushispano.com /pais/rep_dominicana/pais   (2905 words)

  
 CNN.com - Corruption case dropped against former Dominican president - September 1, 2000
In 1991 a local court sentenced Jorge Blanco to serve 20 years in prison and pay a 73 million pesos (then $6 million) fine and 24 million pesos (then $2 million) in restitution for his conviction on charges of misappropriation of government funds during his term as president from 1982 to 1986.
He was the last president elected from the Dominican Revolutionary Party until Mejia's victory in May. Jorge Blanco's supporters have claimed that he was a victim of politics.
Mejia wrote in his order this week that Jorge Blanco suffered "political persecution with precedents," after his party lost the elections in 1986 to Joaquin Balaguer, who ruled for the next 10 years.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/01/dominican.ex.president.ap   (439 words)

  
 1973. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Only when U.S. president Jimmy Carter threatened to cut off U.S. aid was Guzmán declared the winner.
Salvador Jorge-Blanco, candidate of the PRD, won presidential elections over Balaguer and Bosch.
Faced with IMF-imposed austerity programs in 1984, he was forced to walk a tightrope between demands for reform and IMF-required wage freezes and price hikes.
www.bartleby.com /67/3742.html   (352 words)

  
 Blanco
Blanco is a city located in Blanco County, Texas.
The two traditional parties, the Colorado and the Blanco (national), have existed in their present form for most of this century.
"Blanco" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/Bl/Blanco.html   (1133 words)

  
 Financing Democracy: Participants' Biographies
Jorge del Castillo is a congressman, member of the Permanent Regulatory, Justice, Human Rights and Pacification Commissions and second vice president of Congress in Peru.
He also served as secretary general of the PRD for 16 years, chairman of the Chamber of Deputies in the National Congress for three consecutive terms from 1978 to 1982, secretary of state for President Salvador Jorge Blanco from 1982 to 1984 and Congressman in 1978 and 1986.
Jorge L. Fernandez is the Latin America and Caribbean director for Delta Air Lines at its world headquarters in Atlanta.
www.cartercenter.org /doc1337.htm   (15890 words)

  
 History of the Dominican Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guzmán's inauguration on August 16 marked the country's first peaceful transfer of power from one freely elected president to another.
The PRD's presidential candidate, Salvador Jorge Blanco, won the 1982 elections, and the PRD gained a majority in both houses of Congress.
In an attempt to cure the ailing economy, the Jorge administration began to implement economic adjustment and recovery policies, including an austerity program in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Dominican_Republic   (1173 words)

  
 dominrep.html
His authoritarian rule, supported by the right wing, continued until the election of 1978, when he was defeated by Antonio Guzman, who, in turn, was defeated by Salvador Jorge Blanco in 1982.
Ex-president Blanco was convicted in absentia of corruption in 1988.
Blanco forced by International Monetary Fund To adopt austerity measures to save the economy.
www.fortunecity.com /oasis/blackpool/40/domrep.html   (1155 words)

  
 Corruption case dropped against former Dominican president
Salvador Jorge Blanco, a member of Mejia's political party.
Jorge Blanco only served two months of his sentence before the National
Mejia's victory in May. Jorge Blanco's supporters have claimed that he was a
www.latinamericanstudies.org /dominican/dropped.htm   (251 words)

  
 The Fordham Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy (FIEEP) at Fordham University
In 1991, Blanco was charged with misappropriation of government funds during his 1982-86 term as president.
He was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison and fined a total of $8 million in restitution.
Blanco served only 2 months of his sentence before he was granted amnesty, and has been awaiting a hearing in his appeal since.
www.fordham.edu /economics/vinod/CIE/dominicanrepublic.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Dominican Republic: history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The first promise was fulfilled and popular organizations took advantage of the new situation to reorganize their weakened structures after decades of harsh repression.
New presidential elections were held on May 16 1981, and Salvador Jorge Blanco became president in the PRD’s second successive victory.
Blanco tried to tackle the situation by applying IMF- tailored austerity measures.
gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=12   (2927 words)

  
 Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Speakes on the Visit of President Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
President Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican Republic this week concluded a highly successful state visit to the United States.
In his discussions with President Reagan and senior American officials, President Jorge and his delegation showed once again that the Dominican Republic is an outstanding example of a people and leadership committed to democracy and to seeking solutions to social and economic problems through democratic means.
President Jorge's announcement, during the course of his visit, of the conclusion of an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on measures to resolve the Dominican Republic's economic problems further bolsters confidence in his government's economic program and prospects for the island nation's economic recovery.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1984/41584a.htm   (367 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | Ex-Dominican president vindicated
An appeals court in the Dominican Republic has quashed a conviction against the former president, Salvador Jorge Blanco on charges of corruption.
Mr Jorge was president of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986.
After the ruling was announced, Mr Jorge said he felt as if he had woken up from a long nightmare.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/world/americas/1326012.stm   (113 words)

  
 Researching the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: A Litigator's Perspective
Judicial proceedings were not held as the Government of El Salvador argued that it was impossible to determine the identity of the criminal.
She was accused of participating in the November 1989 FMLN offensive and was raped and tortured by three men.
The Government of El Salvador failed to prosecute members of its forces that were implicated in the massacre, and it improperly used an amnesty law which immunized them from prosecution.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/iachr/second.html   (17353 words)

  
 Winne.com - Report on Dominican Republic, An open challenge in the heart of the caribbean
Before Jorge Blanco took office, his predecessor Guzman committed suicide.
Jorge Blanco set up and Adjustment Program to try to halt the deterioration of the economy.
Jorge Blanco lost the 1986 election to Balaguer.
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 history
The rising costs of basic foodstuffs and public uncertainty about austerity measures led, in April 1984, to several days of the worst riots since the 1960s.
Although the voting process itself in 1986 and 1990 was generally seen as fair, allegations of election board fraud tainted both victories.
A commission of electoral advisers, designated by President Jorge and led by the Archbishop of Santo Domingo, played an important role in keeping the electoral process on track.
users.libero.it /magikea/history.htm   (1170 words)

  
 worldsurface.com - sustainable tourism for backpackers and independent travellers
In the early 1980s a sharp increase in strikes and demonstrations was met with violence by the Dominican Republic's security forces.
Presidential and congressional elections held in 1982 showed a shift to the left with the election of Salvador Jorge Blanco, a moderate leftist within the ruling Dominican Revolutionary Party, as president.
Blanco's austerity measures proved to be very unpopular, however, and Balaguer, in spite of his frail health, was reelected to the presidency in 1986 and 1990.
www.worldsurface.com /browse/static.asp?staticpageid=914   (406 words)

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