Santo Domingo, RD.
The Poder Executive ordered that Gregorio Urbano Gilbert Suero, luchador of Dominican sovereignty during the intervention of the Dominican Territory (1916-1924) and member of “Los Gavilleros” be transferred to the Pantheon of the Patria.
“Gregorio Urbano Gilbert is a marker of the distinction and veneration that the Dominican people dispense with their heroes and national heroines through the transfer of their mortal remains to the National Pantheon,” Decree 8-21.
By this decree, the President Abinader created the Commission of Exaltation integrated by: The Minister of Culture, Carmen Heredia, who presides; the President of the Permanent Commission of the Patriarchs of Ephraim, Juan Pablo Uribe; the president of the Dominican Academy of History.
In addition to the Director of the General Archives of the Nation; a representative of the Ministry of Education; a representative of the Ministry of the Interior and Police; a representative of the Ministry of Defense; the Rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD); a representative of the Dominican Association of Universities (ADOU); A representative of the Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance and Eural Cabral, who will coordinate.
Gregorio Urbano Gilbert Suero
Gregorio Urbano Gilbert Suero was a Dominican patriot who was born in Puerto Plata on May 25, 1898, who defended sovereignty and the dignity of the Dominican territory in 1916, before the military occupation of the United States in 1924, during the civil war. nationalist nominee “Los Gavilleros”; and again in 1965, when the North American military intervention was produced on the second occasion.
General fue in jefe of the revolutionary tropes in the Cuban Independent War. Introduced an international dimension to the Dominican Union, which was integrated into the defense of Nicaragua’s National Sovereignty, enlisted by the Liberal General, Augusto César Sandino, who launched the North American invasion in 1920.
Gregorio Urbano Gilbert, to have an advanced oath and serious health problems, was a supportive force for the constitutionalist combatants, who had the mandate of Coronel Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deño, enlisted with the bravery of enduring the second intervention, 1965.
Has just been valued and recognized by the State mediating its name. 162-19, May 25, 2019, which declared the national hero and disposes that the 10th of this year commemorates the day of Gregorio Urbano Gilbert and designated with his name the gate of San Pedro de Macorís.