Dominican Republic.-As a natural process every year great figures of art, politics, science and other human manifestations say goodbye to this world, but in 2020 the deaths of prominent personalities seemed to be accentuated by the presence of Covid-19, the pandemic that pushed towards the grave of many of those who, due to their imprint in different areas, people think they know, even though they have never even greeted them.
In 2020, the Covid-19 took the designer Yeny Polanco and God claimed for his kingdom the great fashion teacher Mercy Jáquez, so excellent in her craft that today they are capable of being in heaven designing the dresses of the angels.
The union lost the legendary union leader Francisco Antonio Santos, a former president of the now defunct Central General de Trabajadores -CGT-, and a stroke left in a sigh, at the age of 72, the life of former Dominican motoring champion, Adriano Abreu.
In 2020, the sculpture was left without the Roman sculptor José Ignacio Morales, El Artístico, a victim of the coronavirus, and watercolor saw the Puerto-Plata painter Jorge Severino leave without return at age 84. They were accompanied by the 2018 National Prize for Visual Arts, Iván Tovar.
The Covid-19 also put an end to the life of the Dominican singer and composer Víctor Víctor, and that of the typical merenguero Bartolo Alvarado -The blind man from Nagua-.
Cheché Abreu, the sonero who popularized Negra Pola, said goodbye to this world in the year of covidianity, in which the illustrious Dominican musician Papa Molina, director of the famous San José orchestra, also died at the age of 94.
On July 28, good television lost the prominent producer Sommer Carbuccia, and twelve days later the filmmaker Jimmy Sierra died at the age of 75, victim of a heart attack, causing great sorrow among relatives and friends.
In 2020, the journalistic class was left without the writer, journalist, historian and lawyer Adriano Miguel Tejada, former director of Diario Libre, and also lost colleagues Chino Estrella, a victim of a heart attack, and Tony Pina, affected by covid-19 .
On October 11, the young journalist José Torres died at the Ney Arias Lora Hospital, one day after the vehicle in which he was returning to Santo Domingo from Puerto Plata crashed, together with a work team from the Airport Department. Other co-workers of the communicator also lost their lives.
Dominican education lost one of its most revered symbols in 2020, with the death at 89 years of the prominent teacher Yvelisse Prats Ramírez de Pérez, while the coronavirus ended the life of the former rector of the Technological University of Santiago, Príamo Rodríguez Castle.
On August 12, the announcer Pedro Julio Santana Jr., a golden voice of the Dominican voiceover, died at the age of 77, and in November the announcer Henry Pimentel said goodbye to this world, a few weeks after being operated on for a brain tumor . 
In 2020, Medicine was left without the renowned doctor Dionicio Soldevila, and the Catholic Church, the committed church, saw the Jesuit priest Jorge Cela leave, who withdrew to Cuba after many years of work in the DR, developing support work to those most in need.
At the international level, on March 1, the Sandinista priest Ernesto Cardenal died in Managua at the age of 95, and on October 28, Manuel “El Loco” Valdés died. Because of the cancer that had plagued him for years… Two days later, on October 31, at the age of 90, pneumonia killed Sean Connery, the famous Scottish actor who most elegantly portrayed Agent 007.
On October 28, at the age of 62, the Puerto Rican salsa singer Carlos “Cano” Estremera, known as “The owner of the soneo”, died.
As if it were a big farewell, in December the founder and first president of the Banco Popular Dominicano and Grupo Popular, Mr. Alejandro Grullón, said goodbye … The world also lost the great fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who crossed the century, leaving to France and to the world a unique artistic legacy in the world.
Previously, the legendary Dominican merengue player Vinicio Franco lost the battle against Covid at 87 years old, who contributed 450 pieces to the popular songbook.
Among others who lived 2020 in covidianity, but did not see it end, was Homero Guerrero, who together with Pavel Núñez formed the Dominican band Code Genetic, with much influence from the Cuban trova. The Gallo of salsa, the Puerto Rican Tito Rojas, also went to the Lord’s call. Three days before, a heart attack took Sandy Carriello with Papo, his partner in one of the best-known duos of the 90s.
Undoubtedly, due to Covid or without Covid, the world lost many greats in their respective areas and genres in 2020 … With the death of Armando Manzanero in Mexico, the world lost one of its best singer-songwriters of all time.-
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