10 Facts About Jacobo Majluta

Jacobo Majluta Azar was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 16 August 1978 to 4 July 1982.

Jacobo Majluta was one of the generations of politicians in the Dominican Republic whose ambition was continually thwarted by the country's labyrinthine power struggles and sectarianism.

Jacobo Majluta married Ana Elisa Villanueva on April 17,1962.

Jacobo Majluta joined the Dominican Revolutionary Party in 1961, in the wake of the dictator Leonidas Trujillo's assassination, and rose quickly, becoming the youngest minister in Juan Bosch's short-lived government of 1963.

When it was overthrown by a military coup later that year, Jacobo Majluta went into exile, returning to rebuild his political career and winning the PRD's vice-presidential nomination for the 1978 elections.

In power, Jacobo Majluta was out of sympathy with the PRD's more radical social-democratic wing.

When Jorge Blanco won the 1982 elections, Jacobo Majluta became president of the senate, using his position to side with the opposition and block his rival's policy program.

Jacobo Majluta did not enhance his standing by claiming victory as soon as voting ended and by demanding a rerun of the election.

In 1987, Jacobo Majluta was expelled from the PRD as Pena Gomez reasserted his influence, but an electoral court ruled the move illegal.

Jacobo Majluta died in 1996 in Tampa, Florida of lung cancer.