Rafael Flores Estrella

Rafael Flores Estrella (* 1949 - October 14, 2010 in Santo Domingo ) was a Dominican politician .

biography

After attending school, he completed his studies and graduated with a licentiate .

Flores Estrella was elected as a candidate for the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) in 1978 to be a member of the Chamber of Deputies and was also Vice Minister for Tourism in the government of President Antonio Guzmán Fernández .

After Guzmán's suicide and the brief transitional government of Vice President Jacobo Majluta , he was appointed Minister and Head of the Presidential Office by the new President Salvador Jorge Blanco on August 16, 1982 , and thus succeeded José María Hernández , Guzmán's son-in-law. He held the position of head of the presidential chancellery until the end of Salvador Jorge Blano's tenure on August 16, 1986.

After the PRD lost the elections, he was charged with corruption . He was charged with embezzling US $ 185,000 for a failure by the president to travel abroad. After his conviction, he was serving a prison sentence in the Cárcel Preventiva del Ensanche la Fe .

In 1990 he initially supported the presidential candidacy of Juan Bosch , but later withdrew his support after he entered into an alliance with Marino Vinicio "Vincho" Castillo , President of the Fuerza Nacional Progresista (FNP) and today's drug commissioner of the government.

In 2004 he turned down his own presidential candidacy for the Fuerzas de la Revolución (FR). In the following years he was next to the lawyer Tomás Castro and the late Ernesto Valette Pérez producer of a radio program. Flores Estrella died of prostate cancer .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Flores Estrella, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1949
DATE OF DEATH	October 14, 2010
Place of death	Santo Domingo