Luis Álvarez Renta appointment as part of his retirement, in order to effect positive change for the country by helping it negotiate a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union. However, after Governor José Lois Malkún of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic’s announcement that Álvarez Renta was involved in the Baninter debacle, Álvarez Renta resigned the post in order to avoid a dispute between President Mejia and his advisors. In response to the announcement, Álvarez Renta took out full-page advertisements in the press, in which he declared he was innocent of all the charges made by the Central Bank. He also
Oscar Bardi de Fourtou vols., 1859); "La Question italienne" (1860); "De la centre-revolution" (1876); and "Mémoires d'un royaliste" (2 vols., 1888). Oscar Bardi de Fourtou Marie, François, Oscar Bardi de Fourtou (3 January 1836, Ribérac – 6 December 1897, Paris) was a French politician. Born into a bourgeois family, he served as Minister of Transport from 7 December 1872 – 18 May 1873. He also served as Minister of Interior and Minister of Public Instruction, in which he "carried out aggressively conservative policies by dismissing certain liberal professors and re-establishing censorship." There he proved a useful adherent to Thiers, who made him minister of