Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for a brief time in 1963. Previously, he had been the leader of the Dominican opposition in exile to the dictatorial regime of Rafael Trujillo for over 25 years. To this day, he is remembered as an honest politician and regarded as one of the most prominent writers in Dominican literature. He founded both the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) in 1939 and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in 1973.
Color Visión is a television network based in the Dominican Republic. It is one of the largest television channels in that country. Color Visión is channel 9 in the Dominican Republic's television dial.
ALBA or ALBA–TCP, formally the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America or the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty, is an intergovernmental organization based on the idea of political and economic integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal is a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It is the only stadium in the Caribbean region to host two different baseball teams, Tigres del Licey and Leones del Escogido. Its field dimensions are 335 feet (102 m) at the foul poles, 383 feet (117 m) at the power alleys, and 411 feet (125 m) at center field. The seating capacity is 14,469. The Dominican League of Baseball Authority is in charge of its management.
Cuba was the first Latin American country to begin television testing in December 1946 when station CM-21P conducted an experimental multi-point live broadcast. The first regular commercial broadcasting began in October 1950 by the small radio station Union Radio, soon followed by other stations. The broadcasts featured sport, soap operas, news, cooking shows, and comedy. Censorship was imposed following the 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista, and again by the government of the Cuban revolution after their victory in 1959.
Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión is a radio and television network operating from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. It is a public television channel operated and owned by the Dominican government. Following the frequency unification of 1996, CERTV has been aired throughout the country on channel 4. Previously, channel 4 was broadcast in Santo Domingo and the Southern zone, channel 5 in the Northern region and channel 12 in the Southwest.
Ana Josefa Villanueva Fabián is a karateka from the Dominican Republic who won the gold medal at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games.
Super Canal is a Dominican television network operating from studios in Santo Domingo and broadcasting on channel 33. The station is owned by Supercanal, S.A. Its broadcasts started in April 2000, with an 18-hour schedule at the time, having a Harris transmitter for its operation. Negotiations with foreign channels were already underway, in order to launch an international feed.
Nuria Esperanza Piera Gainza is a Dominican journalist specializing in investigative journalism. Piera is CEO of NCDN, a news production company in CDN ; she is also owner of Provideo.
Sara María Ivonne Haza del Castillo was an operatic soprano from the Dominican Republic. In a career of more than 50 years, she appeared at the National Theatre, and also in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Cuba. She also worked as a voice teacher, director of the National Opera, and speech therapist. She received honours from her home country and Italy, and an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
Camilo Venegas Yero is a Cuban writer and journalist. Since 2000, he has lived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Faride Virginia Raful Soriano is a lawyer, politician, and radio and TV presenter from the Dominican Republic. She is the current senator of the National District. She also serves as senate majority leader.
Campuzano-Polanco was a prominent family from the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo with origins in Santiago de los Caballeros. During the colonial era of the Hispaniola, their members and descendants went on to occupy high political, military, and ecclesiastical positions, locally and outside the Island, as well as in the metropolis of Spain. Their merits span from the beginning until the end of the colony.
Samir Saba, is a Dominican journalist and television producer and presenter. He is one of the presenters of the morning show “El Mangú de la Mañana”, broadcast on RTVD. Until february of 2022, was the producer of the TV program Famosos Inside and presenter of the entertainment segments of the TV news programs Más que noticias and Enfoque Final, broadcast on CDN 37.
Esmelin Santiago Matías García, known as Santiago Matías or Alofoke is a Dominican radio host and producer, record producer, celebrity interviewer, businessman and media mogul.
Mirta Rodríguez Calderón is Cuban journalist based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She is known for her advocacy of feminist journalism and gender equality in media. She co-founded the International Network of Journalists With a Gender Perspective in 2005, and is a promoter of alliances among journalists in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, with the aim of including gender-based approaches in social communication.
