Opposition eventually emerges centered in the Cibao…

Opposition eventually emerges centered in the Cibao region, which has suffered under Heureaux's policies favoring sugar interests in Santo Domingo and San Pedro de Macoris, despite the dictator's comprehensive efforts to repress opposition—his network of spies and agents extends even to foreign countries.

An opposition group calling itself the Young Revolutionary Junta (Junta Revolucionaria de Jovenes) is established in Puerto Rico by Horacio Vasquez Lajara, a young adherent of Luperón.

Other prominent members of the group include Federico Velasquez and Ramon Caceres Vasquez.

The three return to their plantations in the Cibao and begin to lay the groundwork for a coordinated rebellion against the widely detested Heureaux.

The impetuous Caceres, however, shoots and fatally wounds the dictator when he passes through the town of Moca on July 26, 1899.

Caceres escapes unharmed.