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...Díaz de León mounted a stern defence last year when legislators pushed a bill that would have forced the central bank to absorb dollars that banks were unable to repatriate....
...1948 — He participates in riots in Bogotá, Colombia 1949 — He marries Mirta Díaz Balart, a philosophy student, who he later divorces 1952 — Castro plans to run for Congress, but the election is scuppered...
...Erudite and street-smart, lyrical and profane, he told a story that straddled two worlds, setting a Dominican-American coming of age against the 20th-century horrors of the Trujillo dictatorship with vigour...
...Shuttling between New Jersey and the Dominican Republic during President Trujillo’s 30-year tyranny, Junot Díaz spins a colourful yarn of forced flight and truncated lives that Oscar attributes to the “Fukú...
...he asks, reflecting on a botched CIA assassination attempt on Trujillo....
...Francisco Gil Diaz, the Treasury minister, also retains powers to make spending cuts during the year if there is a risk that the deficit target will not be met....
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