DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

President Luis Abinader appointed Joel Adrián Santos Echavarría to be Acting Minister of the Presidency as per Decree 378-22. Joel Santos had served as advisor on tourism to the Executive Branch from the start of the Abinader administration in August 2020.

Santos replaces Lisandro Macarrulla who has taken an indefinite leave of absence after he and his son were included in the Medusa file that looks into a criminal charges for corruption in the construction of a large jail during the Medina administration.

Santos Echavarría is an economist. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM). He holds an MBA in International Business from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona. He is a Fulbright scholar.

Before his appointment to the Abinader administration in August 2020, Santos had been...