balaguer

[DCfred]

Fred,

You talk a lot of **** considering the few posts that you have. Do you have any credentials to speak of to make you a more serious person than the average WAHOO?

I am just curious mind you.



I know the truth hurts. But the truth is coming out little by little. Just like the Central Bank could not keep Bainter "tapado"....Dominicanos, no se hagan la vista gorda!

[Hlywud]

It never even followed the history books,
Who made the documentary?
And who paid for it.
It was certainly slanted the opposite diretion to whatever I have read.

HB, I am with you, on this one.

Someone should see the film "In a time of Butterflies" (I think that is the correct title), a bit more realistic to say the least, Balaguer was in the movie but it was based around Trujillo

And ERICKXSON

He was born in Villa Navarrete, not an American citizen,

see this article
http://www.joaquinbalaguer.com.do/Biografia.htm

[ERICKXSON]

he was naturalized american his parents were Puerto Rican migrants and when the US decided to give P.ricans Citizenship they left the country to new york...

[urbanus]

TO corecto:
Where can I see, rent or buy this documentary, "La Violencia del Poder"?.
The case of Padre Rogelio Cruz brings to our memory other cases against progressive priests, like Father Sergio Figueredo, during the first twelve years of the corrupt and repressive government of Joaquin Balaguer.

[FRANKY R]

Originally posted by Hillbilly
Nor are you smart enough. I did not "justify" anything. It happened, and it has happened in every government.

People have been killed because someone did not like how the exchange market was going. Any one remember the big, fat guy named Mendez that was found in a cane field? No justification.

Grow up sonny; either you have the "testicular fortitude" cited by one of the leading economists, or you don't.

Balaguer did. EOS.

HB

[FRANKY R]

It is sad to see a country go downhill due to lack of knowledge of it's people, it's the same thing over and over.
Everytime a new president is elected in D.R. he thinks (the president) that he was put there to obtain wealth, or to do whatever the hell he wants. ( though this happens is must latin country, it's more common in d.r. due to the fact that must people are uneducated by choice.

Balaguer was " un pichon de dictador " and still people dare say that he was the greatest president ever elected in D.R.

And now look at this guy he gets elected and the minute he grabed the mic. he started running his mouth as if he was talking to a bunch of kids. When I saw that I said ( you got to be f.....g kidding me ) .

How much more are we going to sit back and let this people do whatever they want ?

[Josue Collado]

Well, Balaguer was the only option at the time. The gringos did not like Bosch and selected Balaguer who learned from Trujillo
(he once was vice president during the Trujillo era). The thing is that dominicans sometimes need somebody to remind us of Trujillo. Even today many people say -what we need is Trujillo-
and Balaguer did that with the USA approval. He did the same thing: eliminated oposition, trusted nobody and change the military liders very often. Dictator? nah, he fixed elections and sometimes the oposition did not participate. Can you believe that I went to jail for been in the wrong place at the wrong time and I was accused of diseminating comunist propaganda and conspiring against the government? well I was arrested because there was a student protest two blocks away from where I was, walking from high school. Good thing that I had a coronel uncle and he knew those bastards were lying. Anyways I prefer to see Balaguer in power again than any other from the PRD. His Baldness(borrowed from Xanadu') think he's a comedian and he is certainly because everybody laugh every time he says the most ridiculous things. IN OTHER WORDS, ALAGUER WAS BAD BUT A LOT BETTER THAN THE REST OF THEM with the exception of Profesor Juan Bosch.

[Lissa]

let´s face it this guy was a master brain , he manage to lead the country for almost 30 years and even after his death he´s one of the most loved public person ever.. I have to admit that I liked him