Hatuey de Camps Jiménez (29 June 1947 – 26 August 2016) was a politician from the

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. He served as president of the

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of the

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of the

from 1979 to 1982, and Secretary of State (today Minister of the Presidency) of the

from 1982 to 1986.

Biography

He was born on 29 June 1947, in

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(then in the province of La Vega, at present in the province of

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). His father was Miguel Ángel de Camps Cortes, a Dominican politician of

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descent, deputy consul-general in

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and

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, landowner, violinist and founding member of the National Symphonic Orchestra. His mother was Orfelina Jiménez Jerez, a teacher. His first born son is Raul de Camps Narpier, whom he had with the journalist and TV Producer Irene Narpier. In the late seventies he married Dominican actress and singer Cecilia García, with whom had two sons: Hatuey and Luis Miguel de Camps García, afterwards divorced. Then he married television presenter, TV producer and former Miss Dominican Republic 1980 Milagros Germán, with whom he had three children: Milagros Marina, Álvaro Hatuey, and Andreas Salomé de Camps Germán. Germán and De Camps divorced in 1990. He married for a third time, with the American heiress Dominique Blühdorn, daughter of the Frenchwoman Yvette M. LeMarrec (a native of

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) and the Austrian investor Karl G. Blühdorn (a native of

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), founder of the extinct

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, and developer in Dominican Republic of

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and Heights of Chavón. With Blühdorn he has fathered four children, three of them

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: Gabriela Yvette, Charles, Alexandra and Olivia. De Camps has ten children in total from his three marriages. He earned a Doctor in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in Spain and graduated in economic planning and development, in the Institute for the Development of the Area Iberoamericana (ISDIBER).

Politics

With the arrival of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) to the Dominican Republic, orients to the political activity. He was one of the most emblematic figures of the PRD. In April 1965, he founded the Student Revolutionary Front Nationalist (FREN). He matriculated into the

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, enrolled in 1965-66, and there he combined his studies in

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with the student fight for a university budget of half a million

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per month. He became the president of the Federation of Dominican Students, and as president, he pronounced the eulogy at the funeral of the leader and student mate Amín Abel Hasbún murdered during the ''

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'' of

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. Deputy to the National Congress in 1978, he occupied the offices of General Director of Radio-Televisión Dominicana by month and a half in an honorific manner. In 1979 he was elected president (speaker) of the

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, position that he held until 1982. During his tenure he created the law that forced civil servants to make a sworn statement of goods. In 1982, he became secretary (minister) of the presidency in the government of the Dr.

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. He was the organiser of the funerals of the Dr.

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, in which the humble populace gave in tribute the most multitudinous sign of love, accompanying him until the graveyard, place in that he gave him the last goodbye to his fellow of always and where the national political leadership and international of all the nuances surrendered the most extraordinary posthumous tribute to any leader.

Departure from the Dominican Revolutionary Party

Afterwards of intense contradictions with the then president of the Republic and copartisan

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, because of De Camps’s posture of no reelection, Hatuey in the 2003–2004 called the population to vote for the

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before Hipólito. This caused more grudges between them. He was secretary general of the Dominican Revolutionary Party and chairman of the party until 2004. He quit from the PRD since the high leadership, had moved away of the ideals of his historical leader Dr. Peña Gómez. Because of this De Camps established the

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He promoted as deputy

* Creation, of the INFOTEP. * Creation of the provinces of Monte Plata and Monseñor Nouel.

Presidential candidacy in 2016

De Camps participated in the general elections of 2016 heading the presidential ballot of his

. Furthermore, he participated in the first presidential debate in the history of the Dominican Republic. He was the only opposition presidential candidate that congratulated Danilo Medina for his victory in the election.

Health and death

In May 2006, it was detected on De Camps an intestinal occlusion attributed to a

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, reason by which he required an urgent

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in the

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of New York. The following month, De Camps revealed that it was excised a cancerous tumor in his colon. In late 2015 his state of health worsened and De Camps presented a scrawny look. On 25 May 2016, after the general elections, trascended the rumour that De Camps had died, version that was debunked; De Camps was in his residence ailed by a flu. The following day he was confined in a medical clinic as his condition had involved into

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; the next few days he was discharged. De Camps died at his home in Santo Domingo on 26 August 2016 at the age of 69 from cancer.

References

External links

Official website of the PRSD
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