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- 1909- . President of the Dominican Republic
- 1963. His left-wing Partido Revolucionario
- Dominicano won a landslide victory in the
- 1962 elections. In office, he attempted
- agrarian reform and labour legislation.
- Opposed by the USA, he was overthrown by the
- army. His achievement was to establish a
- democratic political party after three
- decades of dictatorship.
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