{"id":481307,"date":"2025-09-03T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/today-marks-the-95th-anniversary-of-the-san-zenon-hurricane-that-devastated-santo-domingo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:17:43","slug":"today-marks-the-95th-anniversary-of-the-san-zenon-hurricane-that-devastated-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/anniversaries\/today-marks-the-95th-anniversary-of-the-san-zenon-hurricane-that-devastated-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Today marks the 95th anniversary of the San Zen\u00f3n hurricane that devastated Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo.- <\/strong>On a day like today, September 3, 1930, the city of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/turismo\/provincia-santo-domingo-historia-municipios-y-atractivos\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"422777\">Santo Domingo<\/a><\/strong> de Guzm\u00e1n was devastated by the San Zen\u00f3n hurricane, considered the greatest tragedy caused by a phenomenon of this type in the history of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/turismo\/republica-dominicana\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"419487\">Dominican Republic<\/a><\/strong>. More than two thousand people lost their lives and a large part of the capital was destroyed and desolate.\n\nAt that moment, President <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/historia\/biografias\/rafael-leonidas-trujillo-1\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"211775\">Rafael Le\u00f3nidas Trujillo Molina<\/a><\/strong> had been in power for only 18 days, after being sworn in on August 16, 1930. The magnitude of the disaster and the recovery plan he implemented allowed him to consolidate politically and strengthen his position, which contributed to his re-election in 1934.\n\n\n<p><strong>You can read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/efemerides\/efemerides-del-3-de-septiembr\/\">September 3rd Anniversaries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe San Zen\u00f3n cyclone marked a milestone in the country&#8217;s history not only for the destruction, but also for the reconstruction. Under Trujillo&#8217;s direction, the reconstruction of the capital and other essential infrastructures was undertaken, with the aim of revitalizing the economy and improving the living conditions of citizens.\n\nThe 95th anniversary of the San Zen\u00f3n cyclone is remembered as a moment of pain due to the loss of life, but also as an episode that marked the history of the capital and Dominican politics, with a lasting impact on infrastructure and state management.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"528147\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-03-at-5.36.55-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"San Zen\u00f3n : Hoy se cumplen 95 a\u00f1os del cicl\u00f3n San Zen\u00f3n que devast\u00f3 Santo Domingo\" class=\"wp-image-528147\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"528146\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-03-at-5.36.56-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"San Zen\u00f3n : Hoy se cumplen 95 a\u00f1os del cicl\u00f3n San Zen\u00f3n que devast\u00f3 Santo Domingo\" class=\"wp-image-528146\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"528144\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-03-at-5.37.13-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"San Zen\u00f3n : Hoy se cumplen 95 a\u00f1os del cicl\u00f3n San Zen\u00f3n que devast\u00f3 Santo Domingo\" class=\"wp-image-528144\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- On a day like today, September 3, 1930, the city of Santo Domingo de Guzm\u00e1n was devastated by the San Zen\u00f3n hurricane, considered the greatest tragedy caused by a phenomenon of this type in the history of the Dominican Republic. More than two thousand people lost their lives and a large part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":481308,"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":[40918],"tags":[40231,42192],"class_list":{"0":"post-481307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anniversaries","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-hurricane-san-zenon"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-03-at-5.36.56-PM-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21d1","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Anniversaries"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-03-at-5.36.56-PM-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481307","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}