On the 10th of January 1917, the San Pedro de Macoris mill, was set up for city invaders commanded by Captain CH Burton, who were available to meet with the total control of the Dominican Republic.
The population was tempted to react to the abuses and atrocities committed by the foreign militaries since the beginning of the occupation of the country on May 15, 1916.
Without embarrassment, the invading troops never imagined that a young man of 17 years of age was black, armed with a small caliber revolver 32, had the courage not only to attack and assassinate Captain Burton, but also to escape to the lluvia of balas que le sucedieron al protagonizar el act de lo llevaría a la immortalidad.
This mozalbete is called Gregorio Urbano Gilbert, the rest will be transferred to the National Pantheon at the disposal of the Poder Executive Executive announcing Decree 08-21 promulgated by President Luis Abinader.
“Gregorio Urbano Gilbert is a marker of the distinction and veneration that the Dominican people dispense with their heroes and national heroines traversed by their mortal remains in the National Pantheon,” the decree reads.
Gilbert, who was a member of the “Los Gavilleros” invasion resistance group, lived in Montecristi due to the delusions of one of his companions that he sold the invasive invasion, which was linked to the death penalty in Santo Domingo by the Captain Burton adjusts. However, various personalities have intervened in his favor and sentencing the crime committed by the imprisoned prisoner in the Ozama Fortress, until October 1922, when he was released.
Respectfully, the historian Roberto Cassá says in LISTIN DIARIO that Urbano Gilbert is the meritorious figure in his patriotism and international internationalism in favor of the Latin American people.
“I have a record that Gilbert also lived in Nicaragua in the house of Augusto César Sandino, who enforced the city invaders who also occupied this country,” said Cassá. The historian also recorded that Gilbert supported the constitutionalists who joined the Second Estadounidense Intervention in 1965.
Gilbert wrote the books related to his work during the First Intervention Estadounidense (1916-1924) and his letter to Sandino in Nicaragua during the decade of the 20th, he explained. Creation of Commission El Decreto 08-21 establishment in Article 2 of the Creation of the Commission of Exaltation. This committee will be integrated by the Minister of Culture, Carmen Heredia, who will chair it; the president of the Ephesians Patrias Permanent Commission, Juan Daniel Balcácer and the president of the Dominican Academy of History, José Felipe Chez Checo. Also the director of the General Archive of the Nation, Roberto Cassá and the rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Emma Polanco. Además, a representative of the Ministry of Education, Interior and Police, Defense, the Dominican Association of Universities (ADOU) and the Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana. His coordinator will be Euri Cabral.