{"id":477520,"date":"2025-08-05T21:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/personalities-mourn-the-passing-of-former-minister-jose-rafael-lantigua\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:23:59","slug":"personalities-mourn-the-passing-of-former-minister-jose-rafael-lantigua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/personalities-mourn-the-passing-of-former-minister-jose-rafael-lantigua\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalities mourn the passing of former minister Jos\u00e9 Rafael Lantigua"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- Upon learning this morning of the unfortunate passing of journalist, writer, and former Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Rafael Lantigua, figures from the public sphere have expressed their sorrow at the death.\n\nFormer President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez highlighted Lantigua’s legacy and emphasized the creation of the Santo Domingo International Book Fair and the Regional Book Fairs.\n\n\n

\u201cFue maestro, fue poeta, fue historiador. Fue el mejor ministro de Cultura que ha tenido el pa\u00eds. Era en el fondo un erudito. Jos\u00e9 Rafael Lantigua organizaba talleres de escritura, de cuentos, de novelas y de reportajes period\u00edsticos en el interior del pa\u00eds. Fue un gran intelectual y un gran amigo. Tenemos tareas pendientes\u201d, <\/p>dijo el ex mandatario.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nHe also revealed that the cause of his death was due to complications from poisoning suffered in Turkey, without explaining exactly the cause of his death.\n\n\n

You can also read: Jos\u00e9 Rafael Lantigua: life and legacy of a cultural pillar RD<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nJos\u00e9 M\u00e1rmol, National Literature Award, highlighted \u201cwe lose a true pillar of the arts, education and above all the projection of Dominican culture internationally. He held public functions and exercised them in an exemplary manner<\/strong>\u201d.\n\nWhile, the jurist Carlos Salcedo, highlighted that Jos\u00e9 Rafael from a young age undertook a work of support for culture, to energize and make visible both traditional and modern culture.\n\n\n

\u201cDesarroll\u00f3 todas las cualidades de un escritor profundo. Si debemos definirlo, es uno de los m\u00e1s fervientes actores de la cultura dominicana\u201d, <\/p>destac\u00f3 Salcedo.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nJos\u00e9 Rafael Lantigua was a numerary member of the Dominican Academy of the Language and a key figure in the Global Democracy and Development Foundation (Funglode<\/a>), and a columnist for Diario Libre.\n\n\n

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Santo Domingo.- Upon learning this morning of the unfortunate passing of journalist, writer, and former Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Rafael Lantigua, figures from the public sphere have expressed their sorrow at the death. Former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez highlighted Lantigua’s legacy and emphasized the creation of the Santo Domingo International Book Fair and the Regional Book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":477522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41817],"class_list":{"0":"post-477520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dominican-news","8":"tag-jose-rafael-lantigua"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-05-at-6.18.40-PM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20dW","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-05-at-6.18.40-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}