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Arturo Joaquín Pellerano Alfau (1864–1935) was a
Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
merchant,
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, and
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. He, along with Julian Atiles, founded ''
Listín Diario ''Listín Diario'' (Lit. ''Small Daily List'') is one of the leading newspapers in the Dominican Republic, and the oldest still being published.US military intervention of 1916-24, he maintained a nationalistic line of constant protest.Roorda, Eric (1998).
The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945
'.
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. pp. 52-3. . Google Books. Retrieved on March 17, 2011.
During Rafael Trujillo's reign, his newspaper office was attacked and he and his family were detained due to his decidedly Anti-Trujillo political views. He married twice and had a total of 14 children. His family remained connected with the ''Diario'' until
Banco Intercontinental Banco Intercontinental (or BANINTER) was the second largest privately held commercial bank in the Dominican Republic before collapsing in 2003 in a fraud tied to political corruption. Ramón Báez Figueroa and expansion of BANINTER Banco Interco ...
bought it in 2003.Dominican Republic Newspaper website
. Retrieved on March 17, 2011.


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19th-century newspaper publishers (people) 1864 births 1935 deaths 20th-century Dominican Republic businesspeople Dominican Republic journalists Male journalists Dominican Republic people of Italian descent People of Ligurian descent White Dominicans {{DominicanRepublic-journalist-stub