Salomé Ureña de Henríquez is one of the most influential poets of the Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century. Her roles as a daughter, writer, patriot, teacher, wife, and mother blended throughout her life, and inspired her acclaimed poems. As an advocate for women’s education, she opened the doors of higher education to the women of her period and then on. Salomé Ureña de Henríquez was born 21 October 1850 in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Nicolás Ureña de Mendoza and Gregoria
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina reigned over the Dominican Republic in a dictatorship, extending over thirty years. He is known as having been the “most ruthless dictator in Latin America.” However, there is another side to the story. Trujillo was the third son of a humble sheep herder and worked as a sugar plantation guard in his adolescent years. He enlisted in the United States Marines Corp during the U.S.’s occupation in the Dominican Republic. He built himself up to National Commander and claimed
the Haitian rule, Pedro Santana, one of the leaders in the revolution, became the first president of the Dominican Republic. On November 15, 1899, Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra was installed as president of the Dominican Republic for the first time, and he served until May 2, 1902, and during this administration he was responsible for jailing Fabio Fiallo, for publishing a subversive anti-government newspaper ‘the Free Flag’ which “eschewed foreign firms’ advertising as a revenue source.” Despite