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In 1963, after the assassination of Rafael Trujillo, the Pellerano family led by Carlos Alberto Ricart Vidal,
the husband of Nelly Pellerano Lopez-Penha, daughter of a second marriage of Pellerano Alfau, reopened the
newspaper under the direction of an experienced journalist, Rafael Herrera. Under Herrera, the newspaper
played a leading role in the difficult years that followed the end of the dictatorship, the 1963 coup, and the 1965
civil war, and U.S. military intervention.
In 1970, during a troubled period, the Pelleranos from
El Listín
(Moisés A. and Máximo A. Rogelio Arturo)
produced an evening newspaper,
Última Hora
, which took a combative tone, and which lasted until June 2003.
They put the newspaper’s direction in the hands of a new generation of journalists—Virgilio Alcántara, Aníbal
de Castro, and Ruddy González—in that order of succession.
Ricart Vidal was president of
El Listín
until 1986. The next presidents were Rogelio Pellerano Romano
(1986–1992), Moisés Pellerano López-Penha (1993–1994), and Eduardo José Pellerano Nadal (1994–2000).
As a result of the death of Pellerano Romano, a split occurred in the family that led to the Banco Intercon-
tinental (Baninter) assuming financial and editorial control of the newspaper; in 2000 Ramón Báez Figueroa
became president of the company.
The journalistic acumen of the Pellerano family reappeared in 2001 when Manuel Arturo Pellerano Peña,
son of Máximo Antonio Pellerano Romano and grandson of Rogelio Arturo Pellerano Sardá, founded the
magazines
Rumbo
and
Mujer Única
,
Sucesos
and
Farándula
, in association with the journalist Aníbal de Castro.
Rumbo
was published until December 25, 2003. In May 2001
Diario Libre
entered into circulation. Its first edi-
tion appeared on May 10, 2001, and publication has continued to the present day, under the direction of Adri-
ano Miguel Tejada and Inés Aizpún, as a free newspaper with the highest circulation in the country.
As an interesting aside, since March 2009
Diario Libre
has sponsored
Diario Libre Metro
, in a limited five-by-
seven-inch tabloid format, which is aimed at riders of the Santo Domingo metro, for quick reading, featuring
varied and succinct articles.
Manuel A. Pellerano,
Vice President of
the Diario Libre
Group; Sara Corripio
Pellerano; and
Rosanna Rivera,
Director of Magazines
and Communication
of
Listín Diario
and
member of the Board
of Directors of the
Casa de Italia, at an
event at the Residence
of the Italian
Ambassador, Andrea
Canepari.
© Courtesy of Listín Diario