{"id":499114,"date":"2026-02-01T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ramon-alburquerque-is-buried-after-funeral-honors-are-paid-to-him\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:31:11","slug":"ramon-alburquerque-is-buried-after-funeral-honors-are-paid-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/ramon-alburquerque-is-buried-after-funeral-honors-are-paid-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Ram\u00f3n Alburquerque is buried after funeral honors are paid to him"},"content":{"rendered":"<em><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 The remains of the engineer, former senator and political leader <strong>Ram\u00f3n Alburquerque<\/strong> were buried this Sunday in the <strong>Jard\u00edn Memorial<\/strong> cemetery, after receiving extensive funeral honors at the <strong>Dominican Municipal League (LMD), the National Congress and the National House of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM)<\/strong>, in recognition of his political, intellectual and human trajectory.\n\nThe ceremonies began at the <strong>Dominican Municipal League,<\/strong> the scene of one of the most remembered episodes of his public life in 1999, when, in a context of high political tension, he starred in a gesture considered a milestone in the defense of democratic institutions.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Ram\u00f3n Alburquerque author and co-author of more than 100 laws of the DR\">http:\/\/Ram\u00f3n Alburquerque author and co-author of more than 100 laws of the DR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nSubsequently, the coffin was moved to the <strong>National Congress<\/strong>, where an official tribute was paid, led by the President of the Senate, Ricardo de los Santos, who highlighted Alburquerque's legislative legacy and his firm commitment to democracy.\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cHis passion as a legislator and his defense of institutionalism taught us how democracy is exercised and how it is protected. Ram\u00f3n Alburquerque was a true defender of our democracy at all levels,\u201d<\/strong> said De los Santos.<\/p>\n\n\nThe President of the Senate highlighted that Alburquerque was the author and co-author of more than one hundred laws, including the Social Security Law, the Hydrocarbons Law, the General Electricity Law, the Environment and Natural Resources Law, the General Telecommunications Law, as well as the creation of the State Secretariats for Women and Culture, in addition to important regulations on the stock market, copyright, and border development.\n\n<strong>\u201cHis departure leaves a void in the political and intellectual life of the country, but also an invaluable legacy of free thought, democratic commitment and sincere love for the Dominican Republic,\u201d<\/strong> he added.\n\nDuring the tribute in the Senate, a guard of honor was held, composed of, among others, Ricardo de los Santos, Jes\u00fas (Chu) V\u00e1squez, Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Paliza, Ginette Bournigal and Antonio Marte.\n\nThe honors continued at the PRM's national headquarters, where leaders and militants bid farewell to one of the most influential figures in contemporary Dominican politics.\n\n\n<p>In that scenario, the president of the PRM, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Paliza, delivered an emotional speech in which he highlighted Alburquerque's human dimension and his deep respect for democracy. \"Ram\u00f3n was a man who loved nature, poetry, and music; anything but a violent man. That day he came loaded only with the responsibility that corresponded to him as president of the Senate, accompanied only by the Constitution,\" he affirmed, when evoking the 1999 episode in the LMD.<\/p>\n\n\nPaliza also shared a personal testimony, noting that Alburquerque opened the doors of his home to him and showed him \"the best side of politics\", decisively influencing his training as a leader.\n\nA guard of honor headed by Paliza, Eddy Olivares, Nelson Arroyo, Roberto Fulcar, Gloria Reyes, Rafael Santos, Franklin Garc\u00eda Ferm\u00edn and Samuel Pereyra was held at the PRM National House, with the participation of other members of the executive board and representatives of party sections abroad.\n\nWith his burial, the Dominican Republic bids farewell to a key figure in its recent political history, whose legacy remains inscribed in the legislative, institutional, and democratic life of the country.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. \u2013 The remains of the engineer, former senator and political leader Ram\u00f3n Alburquerque were buried this Sunday in the Jard\u00edn Memorial cemetery, after receiving extensive funeral honors at the Dominican Municipal League (LMD), the National Congress and the National House of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), in recognition of his political, intellectual and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[17823],"class_list":{"0":"post-499114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dominican-news","7":"tag-ramon-alburquerque"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499114","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=499114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}