Hipólito Mejía
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 51st President of the Dominican Republic
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In office August 16, 2000 – August 16, 2004 |
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| Vice President | Milagros Ortiz Bosch |
| Preceded by | Leonel Fernandez |
| Succeeded by | Leonel Fernandez |
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22 February 1941 Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic |
| Political party | Revolutionary |
| Spouse(s) | Rosa Gómez Arias |
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| Alma mater | North Carolina State University |
Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez (born 22 February 1941) is a Dominican politician who served as President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004.
During his government the country was affected by one of the worst economic crises, generated by the bankruptcy of three major commercial banks in the country, which resulted in high inflation, high country risk rating, currency devaluation and increasing local poverty.
In the presidential election of 2004, he ran for a second term as the candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party but he was defeated by Leonel Fernández from the Dominican Liberation Party. As of 2014 members of his party are encouraging him to run for the Presidency again.
Mejía Domínguez was born on 22 February 1941 at the José María Cabral y Báez Hospital in Santiago de los Caballeros, as the first child of Hipólito de Jesús ‘Polín’ Mejía Díaz and María Josefa ‘Marina’ Domínguez Viñals, both natives of La Chichigua in Gurabo, place where he was raised. In his hometown he is known as Cabuyita, diminutive for cabuya (American Spanish for "rope"), because of the long blond straight hair that he had during his youth.
Mejía received a high school diploma from the Loyola Polytechnic Institute in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, graduating in 1962. Two years later, he attended special programs at North Carolina State University in the United States. On 4 July 1964 he married , a third cousin of him. They have four children, among them, Carolina Mejía de Garrigó, a 2016 vice-presidential candidate.
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