nalism, during his residency in Cuba Juan Bosch founded the Revolutionary party and worked with other exiled intellectual to topple their country’s dictatorial regime—without success. Bosch also published the biography Hostos, the Sower in 1939, the short-story collections Two Pesos of Water in 1941, and Eight Stories in 1947 which included “Luis Pie”, while his stay in Cuba. In 1952, after Fulgencio Batista’s successful coup in Cuba, Bosch left Havana, Cuba for Costa Rica, where he taught at and later directed the Institute of Political Education in San Jose. Juan Bosch relocated to Costa Rica, where he became a professor at the Institute of Political Science. But his stay in Costa Rica was not permanent because, during the 1950 Bosch did a lot of traveling throughout Europe and Latin America, Bosch also found time to write Cuba: The Fascinating Island, Judas Iscariote: El calumniado, La Muchacha de la Guaira, and Cuento de Navidad and finally returning to Cuba in 1958 only to be incarcerated by the dictatorship. When he was released Bosch decided to travel to Venezuela, were his close friend Romulo Betancourt was president. Finally, in May 1961 Bosch was allowed back to his native country because Trujillo was assassinated. Two years after Bosch’s return from exile to the Dominican republic in 1961, he was elected president, only to toppled seven months later in a military coup and forced to leave the country( Olmos 9-10).” In 1989, at the age of eighty, Bosch ran for re-election to lose the 1990 elections to Joaquin Balaguer(Unknown 4). The last book he has published until now was in 1986 which went by the title of Las Dictaduras Dominicana. Overall I have covered Juan Bosch’s key moments to give you a good idea what make Juan Bosch the writer and politician.In Juan Bosch’s Cuentos: Casa de las Americas I realized that Bosch’s childhood had a great impact on the th...
