{"id":24347,"date":"2026-01-25T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minutocerord.com\/?p=24347"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:57:21","slug":"opinion-ocoa-novelada-por-santiago-de-la-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minutocerord.com\/?p=24347","title":{"rendered":"OPINION | Ocoa novelada por Santiago de la Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><strong>SANTO DOMINGO, RD.-<\/strong> Una entrada que promet\u00eda el romance buc\u00f3lico entre un joven militar de San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa y una hermosa joven de la monta\u00f1osa comarca termina en un final infeliz y sangriento, en un ambiente matizado por los acontecimientos propios del fin de una dictadura y las consecuencias pol\u00edticas que convirtieron en un infierno la vida del protagonista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cUn guardia en la Era de Trujillo\u201d, es el t\u00edtulo de la novela del escritor Santiago de la Cruz, nacido en San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa el 31 de diciembre del 1961, el mismo a\u00f1o del asesinato del dictador, hecho que puso fin a una Era, y dio inicio a otra marcada por la inestabilidad y la violencia, con golpes de Estado, levantamientos armados, revoluci\u00f3n armada e intervenci\u00f3n militar de los Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">El autor comienza el relato con \u201cUn sue\u00f1o: una ilusi\u00f3n\u201d, reflejados en los ascensos militares del joven Juan Esmeraldo Pimentel, quien conquista adem\u00e1s el amor de la bella Magdalena, pese a la radical oposici\u00f3n de su padre Rom\u00e1n, quien ve\u00eda como una herej\u00eda que su hija se relacionara con un simple guardia de la secci\u00f3n Los Quemados, de Rancho Arriba, en la f\u00e9rtil y fresca provincia sure\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Vocaci\u00f3n, voluntad y disciplina coincidieron con la realizaci\u00f3n amorosa, de manera que los reconocimientos castrenses llovieran como bendiciones, junto a las ni\u00f1as, Vanessa y Melissa, quienes sumaron felicidad al hogar formado por el sargento Pimentel con su amada Magdalena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Un an\u00e1lisis exhaustivo de la novela \u201cUn guardia en la Era de Trujillo\u201d arroja que el t\u00edtulo podr\u00eda reducir las expectativas del lector, debido a que la obra presenta un drama familiar, nacional, hist\u00f3rico y pol\u00edtico, aprisiona al personaje central y lo hace v\u00edctima de una circunstancia cruel y fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Figuras como el sacerdote canadiense Luis Quinn, estampa de San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa, son recreadas por De la Cruz, que hace m\u00e1s verista la historia del militar ocoe\u00f1o cuyos ascensos y suerte amorosa no fueron suficientes para un final feliz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Los ocoe\u00f1os podr\u00edan aclararnos d\u00f3nde se dividen realidades y ficciones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO, RD.- Una entrada que promet\u00eda el romance buc\u00f3lico entre un joven militar de San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa y una hermosa joven de la monta\u00f1osa comarca termina en un final infeliz y sangriento, en un ambiente matizado por los acontecimientos propios del fin de una dictadura y las consecuencias pol\u00edticas que convirtieron en un [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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