Next Monday at 11.15 am, Tribuna EFE-Casa de América interviews Luis Abinader, president of the Dominican Republic. The event will be presented by Rebeca Guinea, director of programming at Casa de América and moderated by Gabriela Cañas, president of the EFE Agency.
Luis Abinader is president of the Dominican Republic since 2020 for the Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) and a businessman. He also ran in the 2016 elections when Danilo Medina won re-election. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 12 July 1967. He holds a degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and furthered his education with a postgraduate degree in Project Management at the Arthur D. Lettle Institute in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and studies in Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering at Harvard University and Advanced Management at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He is the head of the family business conglomerate Grupo ABICOR, which since the 1970s has been active in the construction, rice, hotel and cement sectors. In 2020, in the July presidential election, in which he ran with Raquel Peña for the vice-presidency, he won with 52.52%. On 16 August, he succeeded Danilo Medina. His first actions were aimed at managing the health crisis and reactivating the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. Another of the challenges of his presidency are the fight against corruption (he ordered an audit of the management of institutions under his predecessor), the educational model, the fight against crime and reform of the national police and, in foreign affairs, improving relations with the USA. He began 2021 with the enactment of the law eliminating child marriage and the creation of the Cabinet of Women, Adolescents and Girls. The event will be streamed on YouTube and Twitter channels.
