What Dominican diplomat (and rumored political assassin) was related to Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza?
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Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza (24 February 1928 - December 31, 2006) was a prominent Dominican lawyer, Diplomat and poet. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican republic to Adolfo Ariza-Ariza and Concepcion Mendoza. Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza III graduated from the school ""La Normal"" in Gazcue and Graduated as a Lawyer from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). During his life he wrote extensively about the oppression suffered by dominican workers and defended the laws and properties of farmers most of the time at no charge, publishing some of his works through local newspapers or contributing to books on the matter. His father Adolfo Ariza Ariza was a well known statesman who later became part of the opposition of the Trujillo regime , being jailed and detained several times for publicly denouncing the atrocities committed by the dictatorship. Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza was a devoted father to his children, and was known to have been married several times. The Ariza Males were known to be ladies men for their charming techniques with women and their countless affairs and adventures, a trait well known in the Ariza Family, Publicly demonstrated by his cousin Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza
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Porfirio Rubirosa Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22, 1909 – July 5, 1965) was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player. He was an adherent of the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and was also rumored to be a political assassin under his regime. Rubirosa made his mark as an international playboy for his jetsetting lifestyle and his legendary sexual prowess with women. Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world.
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Eladio Victoria Eladio Victoria y Victoria (born Baní, July 30, 1864 – died Santiago de los Caballeros, July 27, 1939) was a Dominican politician. He served as the 32nd president of the Dominican Republic from December 5, 1911 until November 30, 1912. His entire presidency coincided with the Dominican Civil War of 1911–12.
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Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha Manuel de Jesús María Ulpiano Troncoso de la Concha (April 3, 1878 – May 30, 1955) was an intellectual and President of the Dominican Republic from 1940 until 1942, as a puppet of dictator Rafael Trujillo. Prior to ascending to the Presidency, he was Vice-President from 1938 to 1940. His term began upon the death of President Jacinto Peynado. He also served in 1911 during the reign of the Council of Secretaries
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Narciso Ramos Narciso Rueca Ramos (November 11, 1900 - February 3, 1986) was a journalist, lawyer, assemblyman and ambassador. He was the father of former Philippine President Fidel Ramos.
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Allan Rosenberg (spy) Allan Robert Rosenberg (April 21, 1909 – April 1, 1991) was a 20th-century American attorney and civil servant, accused as a Soviet spy by Elizabeth Bentley and listed under Party name "Roy, code names "Roza" in the VENONA Papers and code name "Sid" in the Vasilliev Papers.
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Osvaldo Aranha Osvaldo Euclides de Sousa Aranha (] , February 15, 1894 – January 27, 1960) was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and statesman, who came to national prominence in 1930 under Getúlio Vargas.
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Enriquito López Enrique "Enriquito" López (died 4 March 2016) was a Dominican Republic politician. He served in the Senate of the Dominican Republic between 2000 and 2004 for Monseñor Nouel Province. He was member of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD). Before his time in the Senate he had served in the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic in the 1990s. López was the PRD candidate for senator of Monseñor Nouel Province in 2010, but was not elected.
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Ana Colomar O'Brien Ana Colomar O'Brien (born November 16, 1938) is a Cuban-born American diplomat.
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Billy Berroa Porfirio Antonio Berroa Carbucia (February 27, 1928 – October 17, 2007) was a Dominican Republic broadcaster known for his Spanish language baseball announcing.
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Francisco Forteza Francisco Forteza (1892–1967) was a Uruguayan political figure.
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Isidro Fabela Isidro Fabela Alfaro (28 June 1882 – 12 August 1964) was a Mexican judge, politician, professor, writer, publisher, governor of the State of Mexico, diplomat, and delegate to the now defunct League of Nations. Fabela was born in Atlacomulco, Mexico State. He was a member of the group of intellectuals opposed to the Porfirio Díaz regime, the "Ateneo de Juventud", a group that also included José Vasconcelos and Diego Rivera. He served prominently revolutionary leader Venustiano Carranza and went on to hold many important posts in the Mexican government.
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Jose Gabriel García José Gabriel García (January 13, 1834 - January 19, 1910) was a Dominican military, historian, politician, journalist and publisher. He is regarded as a cultural pioneer as well as the "Father of Dominican History". He is the author of "Compendium of History of Santo Domingo" written in four volumes in 1867, 1887, 1900 and 1906 respectively and made numerous contributions in the fields of culture, literature and education.
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Ramón Barquín Ramón M. Barquín (May 12, 1914 – March 3, 2008) was a Cuban military colonel and opponent of former President Fulgencio Batista. Barquín was jailed by the Batista government for leading a failed coup attempt in 1956. He later fled Cuba in 1960 following the 1959 takeover by Fidel Castro.
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Adolfo Constanzo Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer, and cult leader of an infamous gang dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists (Spanish: "Los Narcosatánicos"). His cult members nicknamed him The Godfather ("El Padrino"). He was reportedly responsible for the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989, along with several other cult killings.
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Rafael Trujillo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (] ; 24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed "El Jefe" (] , "The Chief" or "The Boss"), was a Dominican politician and soldier, who ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military strongman under figurehead presidents. His 31 years in power, to Dominicans known as the Trujillo Era (Spanish: "El Trujillato" ), are considered one of the bloodiest eras ever in the Americas, as well as a time of a personality cult, when monuments to Trujillo were in abundance. Rafael Trujillo was responsible for many deaths including between 547 and 12,166 in the Parsley massacre.
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Aníbal de Castro Aníbal de Jesús de Castro Rodríguez (born 1949) is a Dominican diplomat who is currently the Dominican Republic Ambassador to Spain.
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Parsley massacre The Parsley Massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; Haitian Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing") was carried out in October 1937 against Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. It was carried out by Dominican Army troops on the direct orders of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Estimates of the total number of deaths vary considerably, ranging from a low of 547 to a high of 12,166 (see below).
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Philip Bonsal Philip Wilson Bonsal (May 22, 1903 – June 28, 1995) was a career diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. A specialist in Latin American affairs, he served as United States Ambassador to Cuba from February 1959 until October 1960, the first months of the Castro regime.
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Tomás Borge Tomás Borge Martínez (13 August 1930 – 30 April 2012, often spelled as Thomas Borge in American newspapers) was a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and was Interior Minister of Nicaragua during one of the administrations of Daniel Ortega. He was also a renowned statesman, writer, and politician. Tomás Borge also held the titles of "Vice-Secretary and President of the FSLN", member of the Nicaraguan Parliament and National Congress, and Ambassador to Peru. Considered a hardliner, he led the "prolonged people's war" tendency within the FSLN until his death.
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Rodolfo Torre Cantú Rodolfo Torre Cantú (February 14, 1964 – June 28, 2010) was a Mexican physician and politician. He held a number of public offices, such as Federal deputy, Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas and Director-general of the DIF (National System for Integral Family Development) in Ciudad Victoria. While running for governor of Tamaulipas as the candidate of the PRI, he was assassinated, apparently by agents of a drug cartel. Torre was murdered alongside a Tamaulipas lawmaker, Enrique Blackmore, on 28 June 2010 near Ciudad Victoria, which is approximately three hours south of Brownsville, Texas. Felipe Calderón promised a full investigation, saying, "the fight against drug cartels must continue". He further stated, "This was an act not only against a candidate of a political party but against democratic institutions, and it requires a united and firm response from all those who work for democracy." Torre's assassination is the "highest-profile case of political violence" in Mexico since the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio.
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James Roosevelt Roosevelt James Roosevelt "Rosy" Roosevelt (April 27, 1854 – May 7, 1927) was an American heir, diplomat and the older half-brother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.