The interview is in Spanish.
Rodolfo Wehe was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to German immigrants and lived there until 20 years old. He also lived in Germany, Mexico, El Salvador and other places until settling in Santo Domingo in 1973 or 1974. He was received by Dr Joaquín Balaguer and lived for many months in the El Embajador Hotel when Santo Domingo ended near there. He says he used to eat all the time at Vesuvio’s (used to be on the malecón).
He has met many important and famous people including the Somoza from Nicaragua, Papa Doc for Haiti, Fidel Castro from Cuba, Charles Bludhorn, Carlos Cisneros, Oscar de la Renta. In fact, he says that one time Oscar, who used to play tennis with him, said to him that he lives in Connecticut and will leave his Casa de Campo house to him if he pays the daily expenses, which he agreed. Though he was one of the earliest buyers in Casa de Campo before the Oscar de la Renta ordeal.
He arrived to the DR after living many years in San Salvador, El Salvador. He says at that time San Salvador was more beautiful than Santo Domingo, plus the Dominican capital already suffered from blackouts, water shortages, etc which didn’t exist in San Salvador. SD also didn’t had any highrises. Based on what he has seen and know, the DR is the country in Central America & the Caribbean that has grown the most and is better positioned than any country in the sub-region.
In 1980 he established the first factory (a copy of one in Mexico) that would initiate Dominican production of Laboratorios Rowe, today one of the most important in that field.
Interesting to know is that one of his (adopted) sons lives in China married to a very succesful woman and another is a very successful movie producer in the USA (Mark Foster, the creator of Cirque du Soliel, etc.) In fact, his first movie was financed by Rodolfo Wehe. He’s also involved in the Cabrete Jazz Festival and other stuff.
Rodolfo Wehe was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to German immigrants and lived there until 20 years old. He also lived in Germany, Mexico, El Salvador and other places until settling in Santo Domingo in 1973 or 1974. He was received by Dr Joaquín Balaguer and lived for many months in the El Embajador Hotel when Santo Domingo ended near there. He says he used to eat all the time at Vesuvio’s (used to be on the malecón).
He has met many important and famous people including the Somoza from Nicaragua, Papa Doc for Haiti, Fidel Castro from Cuba, Charles Bludhorn, Carlos Cisneros, Oscar de la Renta. In fact, he says that one time Oscar, who used to play tennis with him, said to him that he lives in Connecticut and will leave his Casa de Campo house to him if he pays the daily expenses, which he agreed. Though he was one of the earliest buyers in Casa de Campo before the Oscar de la Renta ordeal.
He arrived to the DR after living many years in San Salvador, El Salvador. He says at that time San Salvador was more beautiful than Santo Domingo, plus the Dominican capital already suffered from blackouts, water shortages, etc which didn’t exist in San Salvador. SD also didn’t had any highrises. Based on what he has seen and know, the DR is the country in Central America & the Caribbean that has grown the most and is better positioned than any country in the sub-region.
In 1980 he established the first factory (a copy of one in Mexico) that would initiate Dominican production of Laboratorios Rowe, today one of the most important in that field.
Interesting to know is that one of his (adopted) sons lives in China married to a very succesful woman and another is a very successful movie producer in the USA (Mark Foster, the creator of Cirque du Soliel, etc.) In fact, his first movie was financed by Rodolfo Wehe. He’s also involved in the Cabrete Jazz Festival and other stuff.