Jacobo Majluta Azar
Politician
1934 – 1996
Who was Jacobo Majluta Azar?
Jacobo Majluta Azar was one of the generations of politicians in the Dominican Republic whose ambition was continually thwarted by the country's labyrinthine power struggles and explosive sectarianism. He was elected Vice-President in 1978 and served as President for 42 days in 1982, replacing the disgraced Antonio Guzman who had committed suicide, but he never again held the highest office which he so openly craved. Born in 1934 into a merchant family of Lebanese origin, Majluta studied finance at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo before working as an accountant in the banking and state sectors.
He joined the Dominican Revolutionary Party in 1961, in the wake of the Dictator Leonidas Trujillo's assassination, and rose quickly, becoming the youngest minister in Juan Bosch's short-lived government of 1963. When it was overthrown by a military coup later that year, Majluta went into exile, returning to rebuild his political career and winning the PRD's vice-presidential nomination for the 1978 elections.
In power, Majluta was out of sympathy with the PRD's more radical social- democratic wing. As head of CORDE, one of the large state-sector companies, he was also allegedly involved in corruption, although charges were never proven. His real concern, however, was to beat off the challenge of rival caudillos or strongmen within the PRD, and this struggle dominated the rest of his career.
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- Born
- Oct 9, 1934
Santo Domingo - Spouses
- Religion
- Greek Orthodox Church
- Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
- Nationality
- Dominican Republic
- Lebanon
- Profession
- Education
- Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
- Lived in
- Dominican Republic
- Santo Domingo
- Died
- Mar 2, 1996
Tampa
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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