{"id":155512,"date":"2026-09-03T20:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/antoliano-peralta-launches-book-on-the-turbulent-dominican-history\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:17:24","slug":"antoliano-peralta-launches-book-on-the-turbulent-dominican-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/antoliano-peralta-launches-book-on-the-turbulent-dominican-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoliano Peralta launches book on the turbulent Dominican history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Antoliano Peralta Romero analyzes the turbulent Dominican transition in his new literary work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyer, writer, and current Minister of Justice, Antoliano Peralta Romero, presents this Thursday his most recent book titled \u201cAfter Trujillo: A Turbulent Lustrum, 1961-1966\u201d. This work constitutes a profound exercise in historical memory, focused on reconstructing the political, social, and constitutional milestones that defined the Dominican Republic after the end of the Rafael Le\u00f3nidas Trujillo dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A lustrum that changed the course of the country<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Peralta Romero&#8217;s research covers the five critical years that elapsed from the execution of the dictator on May 30, 1961, to the rise to power of Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer following the 1966 elections. The author offers a detailed look at the events that marked the transition toward a new institutional model, among which the following stand out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The post-dictatorship political transition process.<\/li>\n<li>The rise and administration of Juan Bosch.<\/li>\n<li>The impact of the 1963 coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat and the Triumvirate period.<\/li>\n<li>The historic April Revolution of 1965 and the subsequent U.S. military intervention.<\/li>\n<li>The 1966 electoral landscape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The book not only recounts the events, but also analyzes the constitutional reforms adopted during that period, allowing for an understanding of the challenges that Dominican society faced in its quest to establish a new democratic order.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historical perspective and author&#8217;s trajectory<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Historian Juan Daniel Balc\u00e1cer has highlighted the relevance of this bibliographic contribution, underscoring that Peralta Romero manages to systematize decisive events that altered the national political landscape. For the author, a native of Miches, this work is an extension of his commitment to legal dissemination and historical analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With more than four decades of professional practice, Antoliano Peralta has held fundamental roles in public administration, including his position as Legal Consultant to the Executive Branch. His career as a writer also includes publications such as \u201cReformas a la Constituci\u00f3n Pol\u00edtica Dominicana, 1994-2002-2010\u201d and \u201cPrecisiones jur\u00eddicas y otros temas\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter Trujillo: A Convulsive Lustrum, 1961-1966\u201d emerges as an essential piece for researchers, students, and citizens interested in understanding the foundations of current Dominican democracy, offering a documented vision of a period that continues to be a subject of fundamental study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antoliano Peralta Romero analyzes the turbulent Dominican transition in his new literary work The lawyer, writer, and current Minister of Justice, Antoliano Peralta Romero, presents this Thursday his most recent book titled \u201cAfter Trujillo: A Turbulent Lustrum, 1961-1966\u201d. This work constitutes a profound exercise in historical memory, focused on reconstructing the political, social, and constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[15099,15100,1271,10075],"class_list":{"0":"post-155512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-antoliano-peralta","9":"tag-dictatorship","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-history"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}