samiam said:Gilbert:
Sorry but I don't remember seeing no Ferrari in CMS. I left in 90 but my brothers and sisters where there until 95 and if you are refering to Daniel Peynado, he died in a Toyota in el Malecon, not a Ferrari in Arroyo Hondo.
I also don't think he was in CMS in 93, he had gone to boarding school in the states by then.....but ok, fine. What connection does this have with gambling or casinos? I thought his family had Toyota dealerships and Orange farms... but what do I know.
Even back 20 years lots of 'embassy kids' at school and tourists used to go up to Cabarete to windsurf or surf, which was really 'remote' back then and I never heard any of these kids getting in danger or threatened in anyway. It was safe to travel up there back then as it is today. But maybe there is another North Coast I dont know about. Anyhoo, there are gated communities in the north coast too. Sea Horse Ranch, Perla Marina and Orchid bay, wich offer security too. As a matter of fact Santo Domingo doesnt offer any protection if any its more dangerous in my opinion.
I dont know what corporate plates are....but I want one. Please ask your parents where I can get them.
Yes I am referring to Daniel Peynado. Maybe it's the lore of the day, or the great Santo Domingo exagerration mill. However, I was always told his father let him drive his Ferrari (obviously not to school).....which was a huge scandal back then in the pathetic rumor mills (even with the adults then).
Where he died is beyond me, I was just always told (during many drunken nights) it was in that car and in Arroyo Hondo. You know how rumors go down there, so I don't doubt your account. It sounds more plausible. I felt bad for the kid at the time (and still do), but knowing what I know now about the corruption/daily killings that go on in the DR with implicit government approval looking back it was hard to feel badly for his father. It's always a tragedy when anyone dies that young, who knows if he would have followed in his father's footsteps.....but without question his father was an extremely corrupt and vicious man.
As for the Peynado family, like most high ranking politicians of the time, they robbed the country blind on a daily basis. They were actively involved in printing up additional during the early 90s inflation period, and tons of that money was quickly converted to dollars for their own benefit prior to introduction into the general population. Also, as many people are seeing now, the free zone areas in the DR are routinely exploited as a main secondary and tertiary dropping point for the shipment of drugs from South American to the US and Canada.
The majority of the government down there is involved in someway or another with drug money. The majority of folks involved in exporting/importing of large amounts of goods especially. I could go on to detail more things like this but if you went to CMS I would have hoped you realized we went to school with many of the richest, yet most criminal families in the DR. The Peynados were one of the worst.
And the corporate plates are the teal green ones. Large international corporations like PricewaterhouseCoopers, Verizon etc typically purchase the cars on their international employees' behalf and are afforded these "corporate plates" for reasons I never really understood. It was a great help though, as it had the same impact with cops as diplomatic plates did. :bandit:
Also, my family still owns homes in the DR. Guess who we were robbed by in one of them? The community's GUARDS! We came home to find our house looted of about 10,000 dollars worth of stuff, and the idiot still outside patrolling like he didn't do it. Needless to say they headed to his house up on the North Coast and found a bunch of our stuff.........so don't fool yourself into thinking you're protected by these guards. The people who are closest to you in the DR are the ones to rob you blind. Being a CMS grad I would have hoped you knew that.
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