DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code. A former deputy Minister of Sports, Marcos Diaz was re-elected in October 2021 as chair of the eighth session of the Conference of Parties (COP8) Bureau to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Convention against Doping in Sport at the gathering in Paris. Diaz is a former presidential candidate for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and had chaired the seventh session of the Conference of Parties Bureau, running from 2020 to 2021.

But he has not been able to make inroads into stopping the negative effects of a widespread practice of use of toxic performance-enhancing subjects in the world of baseball training in the Dominican Republic.

Now, after Diario Libre once again released findings of an investigative report into the usage of steroids and other...