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P<\/SPAN>resident Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez and First Lady Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez oversaw the launching of Manuel Tapia Brea\u2019s book of stories, \u201cInternational Focus 1966-1970<\/EM>\u201d a collection of the journalist\u2019s stories from that period. <\/SPAN><\/P> Bol\u00edvar Tapia, in the name of his family, thanked President Fern\u00e1ndez for having written the prologue of his father\u2019s book which is a collection of the journalist\u2019s stories he wrote for Ahora magazine.<\/P> In keeping with Decree 104-08, President Fern\u00e1ndez gave the writer\u2019s son, Bol\u00edvar Tapia, the Order of Duarte, S\u00e1nchez and Mella, Rank of Commander, in a posthumous homage to his father. Bol\u00edvar Tapia is an administrative secretary in the President\u2019s office. <\/SPAN><\/P> President Fern\u00e1ndez, who wrote the prologue of the book, highlighted Tapia Brea\u2019s qualities: his commitment to democracy and respect for human rights, non-intervention, self-determination, multilateralism and the strict application of international law.<\/SPAN><\/P> Bol\u00edvar Tapia, in the name of his family, thanked President Fern\u00e1ndez for having written the prologue of his father\u2019s book which is a collection of the journalist\u2019s stories he wrote for Ahora<\/EM> magazine. He also thanked the President for the award in his father\u2019s memory, the highest honor in the Dominican Republic, according to a press release from the President\u2019s Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/SPAN><\/P> The ceremony took place in the auditorium of the Eduardo Latorre Diplomatic School of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. <\/SPAN><\/P> The presentation of the book was done by the Mexican Ambassador to the DR, Pablo Mar\u00ed\u00f1ez, who noted that \u201cInternational Focus\u201d has made Tapia Brea a model for international political analysis among its readers and writers. <\/SPAN><\/P> Former Ahora<\/EM> director and currently director of El D\u00eda, <\/EM>Rafael Molina Morillo, said Tapia Brea gave the best years of his working life to the magazine. He said the analyses in this book will shed light on nations such as Vietnam, Puerto Rico, the United States, China and the Dominican Republic, among others.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> Also present at the ceremony were Luis Manuel Bonetti<\/SPAN>, administrative secretary in the President\u2019s office; Jos\u00e9 Manuel Trujols, deputy secretary of the Foreign Ministry, government officials, journalists and family members of Manuel Tapia Brea. <\/SPAN><\/P> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Manuel Tapia Brea\u2019s Book of Stories Published President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez and First Lady Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez oversaw the launching of Manuel Tapia Brea\u2019s book of stories, \u201cInternational Focus 1966-1970\u201d a collection of the journalist\u2019s stories from that period. Bol\u00edvar Tapia, in the name of his family, thanked President Fern\u00e1ndez for having written the prologue … Continue reading “Manuel Tapia Brea\u2019s Book of Stories Published”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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