Vicini is a Dominican business family. According to Forbes Magazine, the Vicini as a whole are the wealthiest family in the Dominican Republic
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Juan Bautista Vicini Lluberes is the visible figure that leads Casa Vicini, the most ancient and powerful emporium that configures the Dominican business world with 163 years of foundation the only one listed on the Wall Street Stock Exchange, and his statements offered to Cuban journalist Alicia Ortega and discharged in Hoy and Listín Diario of the four day of this month, for their relevance, deserve to be mentioned.
Although we know that the real rector of Casa Vicini is Juan Bautista Vicini Cabral (Gianni), noticed his age, 90 years, has decided to gradually pass the torch relay to his son Juan Bautista Vicini Lluberes (38 years).
The great-grandfather of Vicini Lluberes, Juan Bautista Vicini Canepa, entered the country, from Zoagli, Italy, in 1860, without a cent in his pockets, counting 14 years of age, starting to work as a swimsuit for horses and dogs and field trades on the estate of his relative Luis Cambiaso, as reported by the journalist Santiaguense Esteban Rosario in his work The Vicini Group, The True Power, Editoria Oúho, October 2011, without waste (page 13), Vicini Canepa struck crumbs with President Ulises Heureaux , the terrible Lilis, and in addition to Santiago Michelena and Cosme Batlle Filbá, were the three characters who coined the birth of the Dominican oligarchy, nourished by the nurse of the complacent state dispensed by Lilís, and that Vicini has survived this strategy until today.
The three gave loans to Lilis, who was always in need of resources to cover his growing needs to pay for a diffuse, profuse, diffuse, dangerous training that allowed him to extend his rapacious and bloody tyranny for twelve fateful years (1887-1899) until he was riddled in a pool of blood by five tyrannicidal shots of Ramon Cáceres in the store of his troupe Jacobo de Lara in Mocael July 26, 1899.
Michelena and Batlle Filbá succumbed to the passing of time, remaining Casa Vicini, impertérrito, defying the passage of the years and difficulties in the fall of the prices of the sweet occasioned in the two world wars (1916-24 and 1939-45) in which sweet prices declined and then experienced competition from European beet sugar, coupling strategies according to the rules and imponderables of the self-sustaining economy.
In an inaccurate date of 1960, the generalísimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo proposed to Juan Bautista Vicini Cabral, Gianni, to put price to his ingenios, and Gianni, a discreet personage, who is handled with a low profile pretending to pass unnoticed, without succeeding, he answered to the Chief who would gladly sell his wits, but who had to go to New York to procure the securities he had deposited in a bank.
He left, did not return until after the despot's execution, and led to the final conspiracy with the CIA's heads of state in Washington DC, who ended the tyrant, not his system, until the advent of President Antonio Guzman (1978- 1982).
In the course of the aforementioned statements of Vicini Lluberes, the latter stated, among other expressions, whether he would have political pretensions, he replied: "I do not escape him to any responsibility", leaving open the possibility of assuming that responsibility, as his uncle- grandfather Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos, President of the Republic (1922-1924), who made the transition for the US Marines to leave the country they occupied since 1916.
Casa Vicini has always received the support of all the governments except Trujillo (Esteban Rosario, op. Cit., Page 15), who confiscated without compensation the sugarcane fields where the ensembles Ozama, Espaillat, Luperón and Gualey, (Esteban Rosario, op. Cit.
page l05), and Gianni Vicini had kept the reply to the Chief for his time, which was manifested as I consigned. Esteban Rosario describes op. cit. pages 117-120, such as Law 23 of May 10, 1963, which fixed export prices for sugar and Law 5664 of May 22, 1963, which obliged exporters to deliver the currencies to the Central Bank to exchange them for pesos that were on par with the dollar, determined the overthrow of President Juan Bosch, laws that Donald Reid Cabral, cousin of Gianni Vicini Cabral, presiding over the spurious Triumvirate, annulled.
Casa Vicini is not only a producer and exporter of sugar, but also diversified its operations in steel (Metaldom) tourism (Hotel Don Juan in Boca Chica and Las Carabelas in El Morro de Montecristi), purified water (Blue Planet), ice cream (Bon (Ege Haina, Quisqueya II, Los Cocos (wind turbine in Pedernales), AES Los Minas (natural gas), Itabo I and II (coal) and Punta Catalina in Barahona, with an investment of US $ 300 million or RD $ 13 billion at 43xl, Listín Diario (largest shareholder), Radio Listín and Radio Cristal.
Vicini Lluberes expressed in those declarations his friendship with the president Danilo Medina before this one being governor
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No consortium in the country has a diversification of investments as extensive and massive as Vicini, or even foreign, that the then president Leonel Fernandez extended granting him the franchise to exploit the port of Sans Souci on the western bank of Santo Domingo to dock cruises , and whether so much economic power would always be innocuous to guarantee the financial control of the Dominican State and its sovereign constitutional powers.
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