{"id":2425,"date":"2008-09-01T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2018-03-24T03:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T03:33:50","slug":"guerra-civil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/historia\/guerra-civil\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Triumvirate established itself in the Dominican State by bloody and repressive force: it dissolved the National Congress and annulled the democratic Constitution of 1963. In December, guerrillas directed by the leaders of the\u00a0Movimiento\u00a0Revolucionario\u00a014 de\u00a0Junio\u00a0stirred up a revolt in the mountains and were imprisoned and massacred by the army. The disgruntled population organized itself in an attempt to reestablish constitutionality. A group of military men, led by Colonel Francisco Alberto\u00a0Caama\u00f1o\u00a0De\u00f1\u00f3\u00a0and the Lieutenant Colonel Rafael\u00a0Tom\u00e1s\u00a0Fern\u00e1ndez\u00a0Dom\u00ednguez\u00a0decided to defend popular will: on April 25, 1965, the Civil War erupted in the city of Santo Domingo. Three days later, April 28, the\u00a0landing\u00a0of 42,000 U.S. soldiers began on the Dominican coast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Various months of confrontation between the parallel governments\u00a0went by\u00a0(the “constitutionalist” and the “national reconstruction” governments, the latter supported by the United States) until\u00a0the Act of Reconciliation was signed in September,\u00a0and the provisional government of Hector\u00a0Garc\u00eda\u00a0Godoy was inaugurated. The elections supervised by the invading troops that, on their campaign, had assassinated more than 350 political activists of the PRD and the left, gave the title of “victor” to Doctor\u00a0Joaqu\u00edn\u00a0Balaguer\u00a0and his\u00a0Partido\u00a0Reformista\u00a0Social Cristiano. Dominican\u00a0conservatism, Trujillo ideology in a new suit, retook power. The “twelve years” began.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Milvio<\/b>\u00a0P\u00e9rez Photographic Exhibition of the 1965<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>April Revoluti<\/b>on<\/b><\/h2>\n

The photographic exhibition of\u00a0Milvio\u00a0P\u00e9rez,\u00a0recording the\u00a0key events concerning the April\u00a0Revolution\u00a0in\u00a01965.\u00a0This exhibition, for the quality of its content and craft,\u00a0is a unique\u00a0historical legacy. It is also a\u00a0tribute\u00a0to the men and women who gallantly gave their lives in defense of the\u00a0Homeland.<\/p>\n

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Abo<\/b>ut\u00a0<\/b>Milvio<\/b>\u00a0P\u00e9rez<\/b><\/h2>\n

Milvio\u00a0Bernardo P\u00e9rez\u00a0P\u00e9rez\u00a0was born in Rio Verde,\u00a0Cutup\u00fa, La Vega, on May 26, 1939, in\u00a0a humble family. His\u00a0parents,\u00a0Mar\u00eda\u00a0Clotilde\u00a0P\u00e9rez and Bernardo P\u00e9rez, instilled an austere and strict home education\u00a0and strong core\u00a0values. From\u00a0an early age, his father taught him drastically the course he would follow throughout his life when he prevented him from attending a school where it was obligatory to say the motto: “Viva Trujillo”. Thus began to define a revolutionary trajectory that would end by\u00a0joining\u00a0initially the\u00a0Movimiento\u00a014 de\u00a0Junio\u00a0and later to the\u00a0Socialist\u00a0Popular Party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1961,\u00a0Milvio\u00a0P\u00e9rez realized that\u00a0photography, practice he had started from a very early age,\u00a0could become an accurate and unquestionable way\u00a0to denounce the tragic events\u00a0that were to take place and raise social awareness.\u00a0He was able\u00a0to capture, through the photographic lens, all the moments of social life that\u00a0he experienced.<\/p>\n

In this way, he risked and worked consistently to capture\u00a0with his lens the persecution and dismantling of spies and\u00a0secret agents\u00a0of\u00a0the regime, the demolition of busts, statues and tirades of the tyrant at the University of Santo Domingo and all the important events that occurred as a result of the fall of\u00a0the\u00a0dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, including the trial of the assassins of the\u00a0Mirabal\u00a0sisters, as well as the portraits of Professor Juan Bosch in his inauguration as President of the Republic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The outbreak of the April 1965 War, however, was the event that catapulted him with the honorable title of The\u00a0April\u00a0Photographer.\u00a0Through\u00a0his snapshots he immortalized\u00a0the protests, rallies, frog-men, assassinations\u00a0committed\u00a0by invading troops, the\u00a0shooting\u00a0of students in the National Palace, the\u00a0arrival\u00a0of the Marines\u00a0to Ciudad Nueva, the assault on the hotel\u00a0Matum\u00a0in Santiago, the dead … All the dead, from Feliciano Matos, who refused\u00a0to collect garbage by order of an American,\u00a0to\u00a0Andr\u00e9\u00a0Riviere\u00a0and\u00a0Illio\u00a0Capocci.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

41 years\u00a0after those\u00a0events, these photographs, capable of showing even the smallest details, capture the courage of\u00a0the\u00a0people united in arms, ready to surrender their lives\u00a0to defend the country. They are\u00a0an eloquent testimony of\u00a0how,\u00a0in the hands of\u00a0Milvio\u00a0Perez, the camera managed to become an efficient rifle, capable of perpetuating the memory of the events that shook the Dominican nation in those fateful and glorious days of April 1965.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Triumvirate established itself in the Dominican State by bloody and repressive force: it dissolved the National Congress and annulled the democratic Constitution of 1963. In December, guerrillas directed by the leaders of the\u00a0Movimiento\u00a0Revolucionario\u00a014 de\u00a0Junio\u00a0stirred up a revolt in the mountains and were imprisoned and massacred by the army. The disgruntled population organized itself in … Continue reading “Civil War”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2425\/revisions\/9836"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}