Last week, the former judge of the Junta Central Electoral and present president of the Academia Dominicana de la Historia, Dr Julio Genaro Campillo Pérez, said that he has established that the parents of José Francisco Peña Gómez were Dominicans. He said that they were Ogis Vicente and María Marcelino, who in the 1930s resided in Loma de Guayacanes. The cédula of Vicente was number 3582-45. He said that he found proof that Dr Peña Gómez was born in 1937, and that his parents were then living in Loma de Guayacanes. José Francisco Peña Gómez was raised by Regino Peña y Fermina Gómez, as it is believed that his parents fled to Haiti during the purge of Haitians by the Trujillo regime. He was later brought up on the farm of the parents of Fernando Alvarez Bogaert, his vice presidential candidate. Dr Campillo Pérez said he will publish a book with his findings, but that these substantiated investigations should put an end to the unfortunate and immoral campaign by those that seek to present Dr Peña Gómez and his parents as Haitian citizens.