Vice-governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is de la Rocha, the second or maternal family name is Pimentel, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Torres.
De la Rocha was born within an upper class family, her parents are the deceased civil servant and columnist Julio Ernesto de la Rocha Báez (son of Julio de la Rocha Carmona[A] and Mercedes Báez Soler[B]), who served as Minister of the Treasury during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo,[4] and Altagracia Edith Pimentel.[1] She married engineer Nelson Torres Rodríguez and had three children.[5]
De Torres joined the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic in 1978 as Assistant to the Foreign Exchange Department.[6] De Torres was appointed on 17 August 2004 as vice-chairperson of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic.[5][1]
Notes
^Julio de la Rocha Carmona was son of Julián de la Rocha Cubelgé and María del Rosario Carmona Negrete.[2]
^Mercedes Báez Soler was the daughter of President Ramón Báez Machado and socialité Natalia Soler Machado.[3]
^Larrazábal Blanco, Carlos; Familias Dominicanas (II). Academia Dominicana de la Historia. Editora del Caribe: Santo Domingo, 1969. Page 82.
^Larrazábal Blanco, Carlos; Familias Dominicanas (I). Academia Dominicana de la Historia. Editora del Caribe: Santo Domingo, 1967. Page 219.
^Rodríguez Demorizi, Emilio (1955). "11: Año 1953". Cronología de la Era de Trujillo (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Ciudad Trujillo: Impresora Dominicana. p. 192. Retrieved 15 July 2016. OCTUBRE3.-El Vicepresidente de la Corporation de Hoteles Americanos, Stuart I. Hokembury, declara en Nueva York: "La República Dominicana ofrece grandes atracciones al turismo norteamericano, gracias a la administración integral del Generalísimo Trujillo y a la del Presidente actual, General Héctor B. Trujillo Molina". Lic. Julio E. de la Rocha Báez, Secretario de E. del Tesoro y Crédito Público, y S. Salvador Ortiz, Secretario sin Cartera.
