San Francisco de Macorís.- The President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, gave the national opening to the “Month of the Homeland”, by leading the acts that honor the memory of the founding father of the Republic, Juan Pablo Duarte, on the 210th anniversary of his birth, in the province Duarte.
In an atmosphere full of emotion, color, and nationalist slogans, with the presence of a massive audience, hundreds of students paraded raising the patriotic symbols, as did the Armed Forces, to the beat of the military march as an expression of patriotic spirit. After rendering the military honors of style, making the deposit of floral offerings and inaugurating the iconographic and educational exhibition “Ethical Leadership of Juan Pablo Duarte”, a Tedeum was officiated in the Santa Ana Cathedral, at nine in the morning.
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The president of the Permanent Commission of National Ephemeris, Juan Pablo Uribe, delivered the obligatory speech, pointing out that “Juan Pablo Duarte has the highest merits to always be named as the Dominican with the highest and purest glory,” he then said, “he never fainted in his work for independence as the main ideologue and organizer of the Dominican movement; he never cowered before the Haitian power that occupied our territory for 22 years; he never negotiated or betrayed the independence proclaimed on February 27, 1844, he never sought economic advantages or personal privileges; Duarte is, without a doubt, the apostle of Dominicanness.”
In his words, Uribe highlighted “the commitment to Duarte’s ideology and patriotic example that President Luis Abinader has assumed by embodying a firm, hardworking, honest and highly efficient leadership, which has allowed us to successfully manage the turbulence of two world crises and the negative legacy of the past administration”.
In this sense, the president of Efemérides Patrias continued, “the strength and moral, political and ideological legitimacy of President Abinader, fueled by the Duartian ideal, is expressed in the robust and determined defense of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security and Dominicanness in all international or national scenarios, like his speech just hours ago at CELAC or the construction of the border wall where the homeland is born and ends.
