Ramón Báez Romano

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Báez and the second or maternal family name is Romano.

Ramón Báez Romano is a businessman, politician and sportsman of the Dominican Republic. Coming from one of the most influential families in the Dominican Republic,[1][2] he was Minister of Industry and Trade during the administration of President Antonio Guzmán.[3] He was CEO of Rosario Dominicana, Baninter, and Listín Diario, among others.

He is a member of the Dominican Golf Hall of Fame.[4]

Ancestry

Báez is a descendant of Spanish conquistadors Rodrigo de Bastidas and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo,[5][6] the Dominican presidents Buenaventura Báez and Ramón Báez,[1] and the Jesuit priest and historian Antonio Sánchez Valverde (who had an illegitimate son with a married woman).[7]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 Espinal, Edwin (10 January 2009). "Los Báez". Cápsulas genealógicas (Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía). Santo Domingo: Hoy. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  2. Tony Smith (23 May 2003). "Fallen Banker Courted in Jail Cell". Santo Domingo: The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  3. "El Fraude en el Baninter y sus Efectos en la Sociedad" (PDF). Participación Ciudadana. pp. 208–209. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  4. "Báez Romano, Bonetti Burgos y Najri, inmortales". El Nacional. 23 March 2010.
  5. González Hernández, Julio Amable (28 May 2005). "¿Existen descendientes de Rodrigo de Bastidas? (1 de 2)" (in Spanish). Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  6. González Hernández, Julio Amable (4 June 2005). "¿Existen descendientes de Rodrigo de Bastidas? (2 de 2)" (in Spanish). Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  7. Rosario, Fausto (14 March 2014). "Antonio Sánchez Valverde, el intelectual y criollo que aún genera debates" (in Spanish). Acento.com.do. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
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