Early Life
He was born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, the third and youngest child of an upper-middle-class family. His parents were Pedro María Rubirosa, and his wife Ana Ariza Almanzar. The eldest child was named Ana, and the elder son was named César. His father, a womanizer, was at one time a "general", a leader of a group of armed men in the Cibao working with the government. Don Pedro advanced to become a diplomat, and after a stint at St. Thomas, was sent as Chief of the Dominican Embassy to Paris in 1915. Rubirosa thus grew up in Paris, France and did not return to the Dominican Republic until the age of 17 to study law, but soon would change course and enlist in the military.
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