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Peña Gómez, José Francisco (1937–1998)
José Francisco Peña Gómez (b. 6 March 1937; d. 10 May 1998), leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) from 1965.
The son of Haitian victims of the 1937 massacre, Peña Gómez trained as a lawyer. He was recruited by the PRD and received political training in Venezuela and Peru.
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His rise to prominence in the party was due to his oratorical skills and charismatic presence. After Juan Bosch's overthrow in 1963, Peña Gómez was responsible for the reorganization of the party and for establishing advantageous contacts in the Dominican military.
In 1966 he was elected secretary general of the party, a position he maintained despite pursuing advanced law studies in Paris from 1970 to 1973. His increasing popularity led to conflict with the aging Bosch and to Peña Gómez's resignation as secretary general in August 1973.
Bosch, however, overestimated his own popularity and soon found himself resigning from the PRD in light of overwhelming su