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 Caballeros Santiago de los Caballeros (; '' en, James, son of Zebedee, Saint James of the Knights''), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It is the cap ...

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 wit ...

, on 10 September 1966, to tobacco industrialist Rafael Leocadio Peña Guillén, a white Dominican, and Estela Rodríguez, a mixed-race Dominican woman. She was educated primary at the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús School, and she studied secondary at the De La Salle School. She graduated from the

Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra The Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra ''(Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University)'', named after Pope John XXIII's encyclical ''Mater et magistra'', which means ''Mother and Teacher'', (PUCMM for its Spanish acronym), ...

Career

Peña started her career following her graduation, at the companies owned by her family. She became a manager at the tobacco and commercial companies.

Professor

In 2000, Peña became a professor of the

Vice presidency

In 2019, Peña was chosen by

Luis Abinader Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (; born 12 July 1967) is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who is serving as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020. He served as the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for Presi ...

as vice-presidential candidate for the

Modern Revolutionary Party The Modern Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Moderno or PRM) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. It emerged after a new division within the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD). It was recognized on 9 September 2014. Th ...

in the 2020 elections. She won the election, along with Abinader, on 5 July 2020. Peña was sworn in on 16 August 2020.

Personal life

Peña was married to engineer Marco José Antuña Cabral, a white Dominican, great-great-great-grandson of French-Dominican Colonel

Furcy Fondeur Colonel Furcy Fondeur Lajeunesse (1814 – 22 November 1892) was a French-born Dominican Republic military man and politician. Born in France, his family moved to the Spanish Captaincy General of Santo Domingo The Captaincy General of Santo ...

. They have three children and a grandson by their daughter. Her husband died in 2019.

References

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