Guillermo Moreno, the former D.A. who wants to be President
SANTO DOMINGO. The former District Attorney of the National District, Guillermo Moreno Garcia, is a public figure, but with reservation. The presidential candidate, for the second time, is very discrete with his personal affairs. Those who know him, recognize in him his perfectionism, a quality which was seen during the interview, as he was constantly aware of where his picture would be taken.
She commented that some people asked themselves why he did not live in a more upper class area, since Guillermo and his wife, the former judge of the Central Electoral Board, Aura Celeste Fernandez were both public figures. A little over a year ago, the family moved to the Mirador Norte residence.
"Guillermo Moreno, as a liberal professional, was trained in an environment more directed at the individual, at self-help, which has formed his overall personality, on many occasions, due to individual work and the concentration on the job at hand," commented Luis Salazar, the coordinator of the National Political Office of Alianza País (Country Alliance) and who has worked with Moreno for eight years.
After being fired from his job as District Attorney of the National District-a job he held for 12 months (1996-1997), according to him because of alleged pressures from the government to change the course of the cases of administrative corruption that reached his desk-Moreno dedicated his time to his law office and to academia.
He was Dean of the Law Faculty at the Iberoamericana University and director of the program of Masters in Penal Process Law at the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra. All of this was interrupted in 2008 when he sought for the first time the Presidency, nominated by the Independence, Unity and Change Movement (Miuca), obtaining 18,136 votes or 0.44% of the votes cast. By 2009 he formed his party Alianza País and now he is seeking for the second time the Presidency.
Historian
Guillermo Moreno confessed to Diario Libre that before becoming a lawyer he wanted to be a historian. "It was something that attracted me for many years during high school," he recalls. He did not study this because in this country it does not exist as a profession. "The closest thing to it was to be a Licentiate in Education with a major in History. That was not what I wanted to be."
Finally the law attracted his attention because of its breadth and because it would allow him to dig into many things. "I believe that this was definitely my profession," he said.
The co-founder of the law offices of Moreno, Rodriguez & Sterling, today at 55 years old, he says that he lives on his profession. He graduated in 1980 from the Catholic University Madre y Maestra (Before the Pontifical). In 1987 he graduated with a Masters on International Studies from the International School of Madrid, where he also studied University Pedagogy and Social Thought.
During the 12 years of the government of Joaquin Balaguer, he was part of the movements that struggled for human rights, public liberties and a respect for democracy.
He follows his interest in history to such a point that he is interested in universal, Latin American and Dominican History. Guillermo, whose grandfather was the great twentieth century writer Domingo Moreno Jimenez, read the Russian novels of the times of Tolstoy and Dostoievski.
His friend and partner in the law firm for 14 years, Domingo Rodriguez, points out:"As a legal professional (Moreno) has well deserved prestige which as I understand things comes from his upbringing, his work ethic, and the moral and ethical truthfulness he shows both in his public life as well as in his private life."
Guillermo Moreno is the author of legal publications, newspaper articles and the book "Alianza: Una Propuesta de País." (Alliance: a Proposal for the Country) He is one of the persons responsible for the proposal of the Statute of the Justice Department, of the Penal Process Code and the Code for the Protection of Boys, Girls and Adolescent Rights. He is also the editor of the Special Commission for Constitutional Reform in 2001.
He was born on 15 August 1956, in Sabaneta (Santiago Rodriguez), and was raised by his father Juan Isidro Moreno Espinal, who worked as the Municipal Secretary for the Santiago City Government and his mother, Ana Mercedes Garcia Fernandez, a teacher.
He is the oldest of seven brothers and sisters. "We were a family that grew up with moments of scarcity and of possibilities, which is to say, we were a middle class family. For our parents, the most important thing was our education; the first thing was school and then food," he recalls.
Guillermo, the adventurer
Although he admits to being stiff, under his exterior, covered by glasses and an abundant beard, there hides a man with an adventuresome spirit.
What do you like to do in your free time, this editor asks him.
"If I told you!," he answered.
Smiling, he is thoughtful and says "What I like most is hiking, which is to say that this is what most entertains me. I love the mountains, above all I like to travel, I like field trips a lot, to get into contact with nature."
He tells how he has gone up Pico Duarte and Diego de Ocampo. "I have been on several mountain tops in the Central Mountains, in Las Manaclas, on Quita Espuela Peak, I like that a lot," he stressed. He explained that the taste for nature comes from his constant travels to the countryside of Santiago Rodriguez to visit his family.
His wife, Aura Celeste, with whom he has been married for 31 years, opens other qualities of the man who aspires to be President. "He was the one that combed the boys' hair when they went to school, because the hair had to be perfect. That had to go to school perfect." Today his sons Abel Guillermo, 30, and Juan Domingo, 25, are lawyers.
"He loves to tell stories and laugh out loud. He love movies and walking in the countryside. He has always been happy and positive and he has never been disconnected from his goals. He has been very adult from the time he was very young," his wife continued.
In his role as a father, he already applied with his sons his love of justice. "He listened to the son if he came with a problem, if he was sad or if they had committed some injustice with him. It was the moment to face any difficult situation and not postpone it, and he said that had to be done day by day," commented Aura Celeste.
Moreno admires Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Simon Bolivar. With regard to music, he prefers to listen to Mercedes Sosa, Enya, and Juan Manuel Serrat. And he makes an effort to dance. "It might be that I step on my partner, but at least I try," he says.
Ana Maria Ramos, the press coordinator for Guillermo Moreno's campaign, says that he works 20 hours a day, All this effort with the aim of strengthening his political project of Alianza Pais and becoming President.
They say:
AURA CELESTE FERNANDEZ (wife): "He is an exceptional father. He is a father-mother. He has taken care of the smallest details of his two boys. He never went to bed without going in and covering up his little boys and checking their beds and their room. Since they were very little, the religiously read to them before they went to sleep."
CRISTOBAL RODRIGUEZ (Friend). "A couple of years ago I invited him to the last Sabina concert in the country. The day before the concert, in our office, I gave him the words to several of the songs of the Spaniard with the idea that he would accompany me in the chorus the next day. Over coffee, he began to read the words aloud, but he skipped over the bad words that appeared between verse and verse. He was incapable of saying them! I still die laughing about this when I remember it!"
LUIS SALAZAR (Comrade in the party). "At times the need to be perfect can make him concentrate on just one job, putting other on a secondary plane. Political activity demands working on several things at a time, but sometimes, he concentrates on just one."
ANA MARIA RAMOS (Press secretary). "He is an honest man and very sensitive; a man who feels for his country and possesses the best intentions to make real changes that translate into benefits for all of Dominican society."
She commented that some people asked themselves why he did not live in a more upper class area, since Guillermo and his wife, the former judge of the Central Electoral Board, Aura Celeste Fernandez were both public figures. A little over a year ago, the family moved to the Mirador Norte residence.
"Guillermo Moreno, as a liberal professional, was trained in an environment more directed at the individual, at self-help, which has formed his overall personality, on many occasions, due to individual work and the concentration on the job at hand," commented Luis Salazar, the coordinator of the National Political Office of Alianza País (Country Alliance) and who has worked with Moreno for eight years.
After being fired from his job as District Attorney of the National District-a job he held for 12 months (1996-1997), according to him because of alleged pressures from the government to change the course of the cases of administrative corruption that reached his desk-Moreno dedicated his time to his law office and to academia.
He was Dean of the Law Faculty at the Iberoamericana University and director of the program of Masters in Penal Process Law at the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra. All of this was interrupted in 2008 when he sought for the first time the Presidency, nominated by the Independence, Unity and Change Movement (Miuca), obtaining 18,136 votes or 0.44% of the votes cast. By 2009 he formed his party Alianza País and now he is seeking for the second time the Presidency.
Historian
Guillermo Moreno confessed to Diario Libre that before becoming a lawyer he wanted to be a historian. "It was something that attracted me for many years during high school," he recalls. He did not study this because in this country it does not exist as a profession. "The closest thing to it was to be a Licentiate in Education with a major in History. That was not what I wanted to be."
Finally the law attracted his attention because of its breadth and because it would allow him to dig into many things. "I believe that this was definitely my profession," he said.
The co-founder of the law offices of Moreno, Rodriguez & Sterling, today at 55 years old, he says that he lives on his profession. He graduated in 1980 from the Catholic University Madre y Maestra (Before the Pontifical). In 1987 he graduated with a Masters on International Studies from the International School of Madrid, where he also studied University Pedagogy and Social Thought.
During the 12 years of the government of Joaquin Balaguer, he was part of the movements that struggled for human rights, public liberties and a respect for democracy.
He follows his interest in history to such a point that he is interested in universal, Latin American and Dominican History. Guillermo, whose grandfather was the great twentieth century writer Domingo Moreno Jimenez, read the Russian novels of the times of Tolstoy and Dostoievski.
His friend and partner in the law firm for 14 years, Domingo Rodriguez, points out:"As a legal professional (Moreno) has well deserved prestige which as I understand things comes from his upbringing, his work ethic, and the moral and ethical truthfulness he shows both in his public life as well as in his private life."
Guillermo Moreno is the author of legal publications, newspaper articles and the book "Alianza: Una Propuesta de País." (Alliance: a Proposal for the Country) He is one of the persons responsible for the proposal of the Statute of the Justice Department, of the Penal Process Code and the Code for the Protection of Boys, Girls and Adolescent Rights. He is also the editor of the Special Commission for Constitutional Reform in 2001.
He was born on 15 August 1956, in Sabaneta (Santiago Rodriguez), and was raised by his father Juan Isidro Moreno Espinal, who worked as the Municipal Secretary for the Santiago City Government and his mother, Ana Mercedes Garcia Fernandez, a teacher.
He is the oldest of seven brothers and sisters. "We were a family that grew up with moments of scarcity and of possibilities, which is to say, we were a middle class family. For our parents, the most important thing was our education; the first thing was school and then food," he recalls.
Guillermo, the adventurer
Although he admits to being stiff, under his exterior, covered by glasses and an abundant beard, there hides a man with an adventuresome spirit.
What do you like to do in your free time, this editor asks him.
"If I told you!," he answered.
Smiling, he is thoughtful and says "What I like most is hiking, which is to say that this is what most entertains me. I love the mountains, above all I like to travel, I like field trips a lot, to get into contact with nature."
He tells how he has gone up Pico Duarte and Diego de Ocampo. "I have been on several mountain tops in the Central Mountains, in Las Manaclas, on Quita Espuela Peak, I like that a lot," he stressed. He explained that the taste for nature comes from his constant travels to the countryside of Santiago Rodriguez to visit his family.
His wife, Aura Celeste, with whom he has been married for 31 years, opens other qualities of the man who aspires to be President. "He was the one that combed the boys' hair when they went to school, because the hair had to be perfect. That had to go to school perfect." Today his sons Abel Guillermo, 30, and Juan Domingo, 25, are lawyers.
"He loves to tell stories and laugh out loud. He love movies and walking in the countryside. He has always been happy and positive and he has never been disconnected from his goals. He has been very adult from the time he was very young," his wife continued.
In his role as a father, he already applied with his sons his love of justice. "He listened to the son if he came with a problem, if he was sad or if they had committed some injustice with him. It was the moment to face any difficult situation and not postpone it, and he said that had to be done day by day," commented Aura Celeste.
Moreno admires Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Simon Bolivar. With regard to music, he prefers to listen to Mercedes Sosa, Enya, and Juan Manuel Serrat. And he makes an effort to dance. "It might be that I step on my partner, but at least I try," he says.
Ana Maria Ramos, the press coordinator for Guillermo Moreno's campaign, says that he works 20 hours a day, All this effort with the aim of strengthening his political project of Alianza Pais and becoming President.
They say:
AURA CELESTE FERNANDEZ (wife): "He is an exceptional father. He is a father-mother. He has taken care of the smallest details of his two boys. He never went to bed without going in and covering up his little boys and checking their beds and their room. Since they were very little, the religiously read to them before they went to sleep."
CRISTOBAL RODRIGUEZ (Friend). "A couple of years ago I invited him to the last Sabina concert in the country. The day before the concert, in our office, I gave him the words to several of the songs of the Spaniard with the idea that he would accompany me in the chorus the next day. Over coffee, he began to read the words aloud, but he skipped over the bad words that appeared between verse and verse. He was incapable of saying them! I still die laughing about this when I remember it!"
LUIS SALAZAR (Comrade in the party). "At times the need to be perfect can make him concentrate on just one job, putting other on a secondary plane. Political activity demands working on several things at a time, but sometimes, he concentrates on just one."
ANA MARIA RAMOS (Press secretary). "He is an honest man and very sensitive; a man who feels for his country and possesses the best intentions to make real changes that translate into benefits for all of Dominican society."
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