Events in the year 2021 in the
Dominican Republic.
Incumbents
*
President:
Luis Abinader (starting 2020)
*
Vice President:
Raquel Peña de Antuña
Raquel Peña de Antuña (born Raquel Peña Rodríguez; 10 September 1966) is a Dominican politician and academic who has served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic since 2020.
Early life and education
Peña was born in Santiago de los ...
(starting 2020)
Events
*January 6 – The government condemns violence in the
2021 storming of the United States Capitol
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.
*February 27 – The government says it will
fence the border between the DR and Haiti in order to curb migration and other illegal activities.
Deaths
*January 7 –
Norberto James Rawlings, 75, poet; complications from Parkinson's disease.
*January 8 – , 97, military officer, Head of the
Armed Forces
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(1966-1971, 1972-1975, 1978).
*January 10 –
Pedro González, 83, baseball player (
New York Yankees,
Cleveland Indians).
*January 20 – Juan Bautista Sánchez Peralta (″Juanchy″), 64, part owner of
Águilas Cibaeñas baseball team; COVID-19 (b. 1956).
*February 15 –
Johnny Pacheco, 85, musician (
Fania All-Stars) and label executive (
Fania Records), complications from pneumonia.
*March 23 –
Hugo Cabrera
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* ''Hugo'' (film), a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese
* Hugo Award, a science fiction and fantasy award named after Hugo Gernsback
* Hugo (franchise), a children's media franchise based on a ...
, 67, basketball player; pancreatic cancer.
*April 6 –
Jack Veneno
Jack Veneno (born Rafael Antonio Sánchez; May 2, 1942 – April 6, 2021) was a List of people from the Dominican Republic, Dominican Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and politician.
Professional wrestling career
He became interest ...
, 78, professional wrestler (
WWC) and politician; pancreatic cancer.
Muere Jack Veneno, el Campeón de la Bolita del Mundo
See also
* COVID-19 pandemic in the Dominican Republic
*2021 in the Caribbean
The following lists events that happened during 2021 in the Caribbean.
Sovereign states
Cuba
*First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro (since 2011),[2021 Atlantic hurricane season
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season was the third-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, producing 21 named storms and the second season in a row (third overall) in which the designated 21-name list of storm names was exhausted. ...]
References
External links
{{Caribbean topic, 2021 in
2020s in the Dominican Republic
Years of the 21st century in the Dominican Republic
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