Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002) was a Dominican lawyer, intellectual, and politician who served repeatedly as president of the Dominican Republic between 1960 and 1996.
In the vault's source cluster, he appears primarily in his first and most analytically significant role: as one of the elite intellectuals who provided the post-facto ideological justification for the 1937-parsley-massacre. This is the distinction turits-world-destroyed-ch-notes insists on and that the vault must preserve — Balag...
In the ScholarshipHow historians have read this figure.
How historians and scholars have interpreted this figure across different analytical traditions.
Richard Lee TuritsFoundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History2003
TimelineAcross the historical record.
- 1937-10
1937 Parsley Massacre
parsley-massacre — massacre whose aftermath Balaguer helped justify