Juan Delancer | |
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 Juan Delancer on the set of Trópico de Sangre | |
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| Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist, Film director, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Juan Delancer is a Dominican writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director.
Juan Delancer | |
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| Juan Delancer on the set of Trópico de Sangre | |
| Born | |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist, Film director, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Juan Delancer is a Dominican writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director.
Delancer got his start as a writer, researcher, journalist, documentarian and television producer in the Dominican Republic throughout the 1980s and 1990s before beginning work on his first feature film debut, Trópico de Sangre, which tells the story of the Mirabal sisters in times of Rafael Trujillo dictatorship, and is co-produced by and starring actress Michelle Rodriguez. He has served en public administration as ambassador to Uruguay and private secretary of Dr.Leonel Fernández, current Presidente of Dominican Republic as well as director of the State Public Television CERTV. His book "Launching of Glory" -Desembarco de la Gloria-about guerrillas expeditions that in 1959 intended to overthrew Rafael Trujillo dictatorship, is one of the main sources for Dominican scholars who studies that historical period. [1]
Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer. He was President of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms for that office from 1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, and 1986 to 1996.
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, nicknamed El Jefe ), was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 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 his life as an unelected military strongman under figurehead presidents. His rule of 31 years, known to Dominicans as the Trujillo Era, was one of the longest for a non-royal leader in the world, and centered around a personality cult of the ruling family. It was also one of the most brutal; Trujillo's security forces, including the infamous SIM, were responsible for perhaps as many as 50,000 murders. These included between 12,000 and 30,000 Haitians in the infamous Parsley massacre in 1937, which continues to affect Dominican-Haitian relations to this day.
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