José Francisco Peña Gómez
José Francisco Peña Gómez (6 March 1937 – 10 May 1998) was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He was the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), a three-time candidate for president of the Dominican Republic and former Mayor of Santo Domingo. He is considered, along with Joaquín Balaguer and Juan Bosch (politician), Juan Bosch, as one of the most prominent Dominican political figures of the 20th century. Early life Born to María Marcelin, a Haitian woman, and Oguís Vincent, a Haitians in the Dominican Republic, Haitian immigrant, on March 6, 1937, in Mao, Dominican Republic, Mao, Dominican Republic, Peña Gómez was adopted as an infant by Simón Pichardo and Andrea Rodríguez de Pichardo, a Dominican family, when his parents had to flee to Haiti (where they died) in order to save their lives as the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Rafael Trujillo enacted the Parsley Massacre against Haitians that same year. In later years, Peña Gómez’ o ...
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Nacional, city center had a population of 1,029,110 while its Metropolitan area, the Greater Santo Domingo, had a population of 4,274,651. The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional (D.N.), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province. Santo Domingo was founded in 1496 by the Spanish Empire and is the oldest continuously inhabited European colonization of the Americas, European settlement in the Americas. It was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World, the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo is the site of the first university, cathedral, castle, monastery, and fortress in the New World. The city's Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo), Colonial Zone was declared as a World Herit ...
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Bruno Kreisky
Bruno Kreisky (; 22 January 1911 – 29 July 1990) was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72, he was the oldest chancellor after World War II. Kreisky's 13-year tenure was the longest of any chancellor in republican Austria and, as an influential political figure in Western European social democracy, he worked closely with likeminded leaders Willy Brandt of West Germany and Olof Palme of Sweden in Socialist International. Life and political career Kreisky was born in Margareten, a district of Vienna, to a non-observant Jewish family. His parents were Max (Markus) Kreisky (1876, Klattau – 1944) and Irene Kreisky née Felix (1884, Třebíč – 1969). His father worked as a textile manufacturer. 100th anniversary of the birth of Bruno Kreisky, 11 January 2011 Shocked by the level of poverty and violence in Austria during the 1920s, he joined the youth wing of the Socialist Part ...
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Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the Chancellor of Germany, chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 Nobel Peace Prize, 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in Western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe. He was the first Social Democratic chancellor since 1930. Fleeing to Norway and then Sweden during the Nazi regime and working as a left-wing politics, left-wing journalist, he took the name Willy Brandt as a pseudonym to avoid detection by Nazi agents, and then formally adopted the name in 1948. Brandt earned initial fame as Governing Mayor of Berlin, governing mayor of West Berlin. He served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany), foreign minis ...
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Socialist International
The Socialist International (SI) is a political international or worldwide organisation of political parties which seek to establish democratic socialism, consisting mostly of Social democracy, social democratic political parties and Labour movement, labour organisations. Although formed in 1951 as a successor to the Labour and Socialist International, it has antecedents in the late 19th century. The organisation currently includes 132 member parties and organisations from over 100 countries. Its members have governed in many countries, including most of Europe. In 2013, a schism in the SI led to the establishment of the Progressive Alliance. The current secretary general of the SI is Benedicta Lasi of Ghana, the current president is the Prime Minister of Spain, prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and the current vice-president is Temirlan Sultanbekov of Kyrgyzstan, all of whom were elected at the last SI Congress held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2022. History First and ...
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Olof Palme And Pena Gomez
Olov (or Olof) is a Swedish form of Olav/Olaf, meaning "ancestor's descendant". A common short form of the name is ''Olle''. The name may refer to: * Olle Åberg (1925–2013), Swedish middle-distance runner * Olle Åhlund (1920–1996), Swedish footballer * Olle Anderberg (1919–2003), Swedish wrestler in the Olympic Games * Olle Andersson (speedway rider) (1932–2017), Swedish speedway rider * Olle Andersson (tennis) (1895–1974), Swedish tennis player * Olov Englund (born 1983), Swedish bandy player * Olof Forssberg (1938–2023), Swedish jurist and civil servant * Olle Hagnell (1924–2011), Swedish psychiatrist * Olle Hellbom (1925–1982), Swedish film director * Olof Johansson (born 1937), Swedish politician * Olov Lambatunga, Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1198–1206 * Olle Larsson (1928–1960), Swedish rower * Olof Mellberg (born 1977), Swedish footballer * Olof Mörck (born 1981), Swedish guitarist and songwriter, member of Amaranthe * Olle Nordemar (1914� ...
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Pena Gomez And Willy Brandt
Pena may refer to: *Pena (footballer), Brazilian soccer player *Pena (musical instrument), an Indian musical instrument *Pena (surname) *Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal *"Pena", a song by Captain Beefheart on the album ''Trout Mask Replica'' See also * *Peña (other) *Penha (other) *Pina (other) *Piña (other) Piña is a fiber made from the leaves of a pineapple. Piña is also a Spanish word for a pineapple or pinecone. Piña may also refer to: People * John Piña Craven (1924–2015), United States Navy officer * Piña (surname) Places * Piña, ...

Leonel Fernández
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna () (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation. Fernández became the first elected president of the Dominican Republic under his political party, the Dominican Liberation Party (''Partido de la Liberación Dominicana'', or PLD), although party founder Juan Bosch was also sworn in as president in 1963 after the first democratic elections held in roughly four decades in the country. Fernández's administrations have focused much on technological and infrastructural development and macroeconomic and monetary stability. He has served as the party president of the Dominican Liberation Party from 2001 until his resignation on 20 October 2019. He later founded the People's Force and nominated himself as its party's presidential nominee. He is a native of Villa Juan ...
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Pena Gomez And Nelson Mandela
Pena may refer to: *Pena (footballer), Brazilian soccer player *Pena (musical instrument), an Indian musical instrument *Pena (surname) *Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal *"Pena", a song by Captain Beefheart on the album ''Trout Mask Replica'' See also * *Peña (other) *Penha (other) *Pina (other) *Piña (other) Piña is a fiber made from the leaves of a pineapple. Piña is also a Spanish word for a pineapple or pinecone. Piña may also refer to: People * John Piña Craven (1924–2015), United States Navy officer * Piña (surname) Places * Piña, ...

Social Christian Reformist Party
The Social Christian Reformist Party (, PRSC) is a Christian democratic right-wing political party in the Dominican Republic. It was established on July 24, 1984, by the union of Joaquín Balaguer's ''Partido Reformista'' and the ''Partido Revolucionario Social Cristiano''. Some of the PRSC's founders and leaders were originally business leaders and Roman Catholics who opposed the communist, socialist, and social democratic tendencies of Juan Bosch, the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). The PRSC is strongly associated with Balaguer, who was the presidential candidate of the PRSC and its predecessor party in all but one election between 1966 and 2000. The party was often in power during this period, but declined rapidly following Balaguer's death in 2002. After the mid-2000s the party was relegated to being a junior partner of the PRD or PLD, and ceased running a presidential candidate in 2012. The PRSC was in an alliance with th ...
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Pena Gomez And Felipe Gonzalez
Pena may refer to: *Pena (footballer), Brazilian soccer player *Pena (musical instrument), an Indian musical instrument *Pena (surname) *Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal *"Pena", a song by Captain Beefheart on the album ''Trout Mask Replica'' See also * *Peña (other) *Penha (other) *Pina (other) *Piña (other) Piña is a fiber made from the leaves of a pineapple. Piña is also a Spanish word for a pineapple or pinecone. Piña may also refer to: People * John Piña Craven (1924–2015), United States Navy officer * Piña (surname) Places * Piña, ...

Salvador Jorge Blanco
José Salvador Omar Jorge Blanco (5 July 1926 – 26 December 2010) was a Dominican politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 48th president of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986. He was a Senator running for the PRD party. He started his political career as a Committee Secretary for the ''Unión Cívica de Santiago'' in 1963 and joined the PRD in 1964. Early years and education Jorge Blanco was born in Santiago on July 5, 1926, son of Dilia Limbert Blanco Polanco ( Tamboril, 1900-Santiago, 1988) and Pedro María Jorge Arias ( Licey, 1898-Santiago, 1982). He studied at primary school Ercilia Pepin, and superiors at the Ulises Francisco Espaillat high school. He graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. In 1951, he obtained a doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a postgraduate degree in the specialty of International Law. Jorge Blanco was a musician, standing out on instruments such as piano and cello. Jorge married Asel ...
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