Manuel Altagracia Cáceres y Fernández, sometimes called ''Memé'' (1838 in Azua – 1878) was a

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politician. He served as

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from January 3, 1868 until February 13, 1868. He also served as General-In-Chief of the Dominican Republic from January 22, 1874 to April 6, 1874.

Biography

He was born in the city of Azua in 1838, during the years of the Haitian occupation A supporter of President

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, he fought the rebels during the revolution of July 1857, which earned him accusations of conspiracy. An annexationist, he approved the Law of Annexation by Spain in 1861, but fought alongside President Pepillo Salcedo during the war of 1863 1 . In 1867, he was again a supporter of Báez and participated in the coup d'état against the government of

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. In 1868 he briefly held the position of president of the Dominican Republic for one brief month. After Báez returned to power in May, he entered the presidential cabinet. In 1871, he participated in a coup against Báez with Ignacio María González, who became president. A few months later, he attempted to depose González, but failed and was exiled to

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. After the fall of the government in 1876, he returned to the Dominican Republic and led an armed movement against

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. Captured, he was exiled again. In December 1876, he returned to the country and became Minister of Finance in the new government of Buenaventura Báez. This government was overthrown by González in 1878. When elections were scheduled for September, he was assassinated on the orders of

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1 . His son,

Ramón Cáceres Ramón Arturo Cáceres Vasquez (15 December 1866, Moca, Dominican Republic – 19 November 1911, Santo Domingo), nicknamed Mon Cáceres, was a Dominican Republic politician and minister of the Armed Forces. He was the 31st president of the Domi ...

, avenged him by assassinating Heureaux in 1899.

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Biography

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