Ex Dominician president Antonio Barrerra dies
Q. Which former president passed away on May 31st 2016?- Published on 02 Jun 16a. Antonio Imbert Barrera
b. Luis Amiama Tio
c. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Antonio Imbert Barrera
Former Dominican president and general Antonio Imbert Barrera who was the last survivor of a group that toppled a brutal dictator died on 31st May. He was 95.
- Imbert was a top government official during the reign of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, but he and 10 other men plotted his assassination in 1961 and helped end 31 years of bloody dictatorship.
- Only Imbert and one other person, Luis Amiama Tio, survived the persecution that ensued. Amiama died in 1980.
- Imbert was declared a national hero after Trujillo was killed, and in 1963, he participated in a US-backed coup against president Juan Bosch. He formed part of a military junta established after the coup and helped fight off a 1965 insurrection to re-establish Bosch that sparked a US invasion.
