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Culture Ministry Launches Book \u201cThe Master of Disguise and History of the Ali Babas\u201d<\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he Ministry of Culture\u2019s General Directorate and Carnival ManagementOfficehas launched the new book,\u201cThe Master of Disguise and History of the Ali Babas\u201d at a ceremony in the Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Art Hall in the presence of young people and adults interested in Carnival issues.<\/P> The book goes into the history of the Ali Babasand other traditional characters of the Dominican Carnival through the years. It also relates great Carnival moments.<\/P> Ram\u00f3n Lachapelle, Director of the Carnival Management Office; Le\u00f3n F\u00e9lix Batista, Director of Literary Projects; Gustavo “Tico” Batista, author of the book and Ram\u00f3n Rivas, Deputy Director of Management and Carnival, sat at the table of honor.<\/P> The book goes into the history of the Ali Babasand other traditional characters of the Dominican Carnival through the years. It also relates great Carnival moments.<\/P> Le\u00f3n F\u00e9lix Batista spoke with great pride about the publication of his brother\u2019s first book, which he hoped would be the first of many in his literary career of books that will benefit Dominican literature and culture.<\/P> He said this book is written from the point of view of someone who has experienced carnival, dressing up in the costumes for decades in Santo Domingo as well as New York.<\/P> Ram\u00f3n Rivas also spoke at the event, relating some of his own experiences in the various carnival groups along withTico Batista, who he described as a person who well knows the life of a carnival participant.<\/P> He read some passages from the book and invited the public to get to know more about the various characters that form part of the Dominican Carnival tradition.<\/P> Finally, author Tico Batista thanked his family for being with him on this special occasion as well as others who attended the book launch. He also thanked the Ministry of Culture for providing this opportunity.<\/P> Culture Ministry Launches Book \u201cThe Master of Disguise and History of the Ali Babas\u201dSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic 05\/03\/13 The Ministry of Culture\u2019s General Directorate and Carnival ManagementOfficehas launched the new book,\u201cThe Master of Disguise and History of the Ali Babas\u201d at a ceremony in the Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Art Hall in the presence of young people … Continue reading “Culture Ministry Launches Book \u201cThe Master of Disguise and History of the Ali Babas\u201d”<\/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-6180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180"}],"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=6180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 05\/03\/13<\/P>
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Table of honor: Ram\u00f3n Rivas, Gustavo “Tico” Batista, Le\u00f3n F\u00e9lix Batista and Ram\u00f3n Lachapelle. ![\"Culture](\"\/Portal\/noticias\/alibb1_500.jpg\")
Book author, Gustavo “Tico” Batista<\/P><\/TD><\/TR>
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