Elías Wessin y Wessin

Elías WESSIN y WESSIN ( born July 22, 1924 in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, † April 18, 2009 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) was a brigadier general and politician of the Dominican Republic.

Biography

WESSIN resigned after the school in 1945 in the Army ( Fuerzas armadas de la República Dominicana ) and there rose to brigadier general. In September 1963, he was employed as representatives of the extreme political right to the leaders within the military, which overthrew President Juan Bosch Gavino by a military coup.

In 1965, he played an instrumental role during the Civil War and was after the fall of President Donald Reid Cabral on April 25, 1965 the Revolutionary Committee of. Between April and May 1, 1965 28 he was temporarily President of the Dominican Republic.

In 1970 he ran for the office of President, but lost it to the incumbent Joaquin Balaguer. Even in the presidential elections of 1982 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of President, but Salvador Jorge Blanco had to concede defeat.

On August 16, 1986, the newly elected President Joaquín Balaguer appointed him Secretary of the Interior in the government. After a cabinet reshuffle, he was then last from 1988 to 1989 Minister of Defence in the Cabinet.