José Rafael Abinader

[1] Abinader as a businessman was president of Grupo Abicor, and at the time of his death he was worth US$600 million.

When he was 11 years old, his family moved from the town of Tamboril to the hamlet of Gurabito (located on the outskirts of Santiago de los Caballeros).

[1] He married Rosa S. Corona Caba, and had 3 children, among them the businessman and politician Luis Abinader.

[2] Later, he separated from his wife, without getting divorced, and had a concubinage with Romina C. León (born 1971), who later became Dominican Republic consul to Valencia, and had one daughter with her.

Abinader was a member of the National Executive Committee (Spanish: Comité Ejecutivo Nacional) of the Dominican Revolutionary Party starting in 1963.