José Rafael Abinader

José Rafael Abinader Wasaf (born 2 March 1929) is a politician, lawyer and writer from the Dominican Republic. Former Vice-President of the Dominican Revolutionary Party. He founded the Universidad Dominicana O&M university, in which he was rector.
Abinader is the son of José S. Abinader, a Lebanese immigrant from Baskinta that arrived to the country in 1898, and Esther Wasaf, born in Monte Cristi to Lebanese parents. When he was 11 years old, his family moved from the town of Tamboril to the hamlet of Gurabito (located on the outskirts of Santiago de los Caballeros). He studied Law, and got a doctorate. He married Rosa S. Corona Caba, and procreated 3 children, among them, the businessman and politician Luis Abinader. Abinader has been member of the National Executive Committee (Spanish: Comité Ejecutivo Nacional) of the Dominican Revolutionary Party since 1963.
He founded the Dominican Social Alliance party (now the Modern Revolutionary Party); in 1998 he was elected Senator for the Santiago Province in an alliance with the Dominican Revolutionary Party.

• "Ideas económicas y sociales"
• "Comentarios acerca del ahorro"
• "Bosquejo de un estudio económico"
• "La corrupción administrativa en América Latina"
• "La sociedad bajo escrutinio"
• "Poemas antiguos"

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