Danilo Medina Snchez is a Dominican politician and President of the Dominican Republic, since 2012.
Medina was born in Arroyo Cano, San Juan Province, in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. He is the oldest of eight brothers born of Juan Pablo Medina and Amelia Snchez. Since he wasyears old he was a student leader, founding the San Juan de la Maguana branch of the Frente Revolucionario Estudiantil Nacionalista at the UASD. When Professor Juan Bosch founded the Partido de la Liberacin Dominicana in 1973, Medina joined him. He studied economics at Instituto Tecnolgico Santo Domingo , and graduated magna cum laude in 1984. He has been a member of the Central Committee of the PLD since 1983. In 1986 election he was elected a deputy in Congress. In 1987, he married psychologist Cndida Montilla and has three daughters, Sibeli, Vanessa and Ana Paula.
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