DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Former executive editor of Diario Libre, now occasional editorial writer for the newspaper, Ines Aizpun dedicated the AM spot on Wednesday, 13 August 2025 to a problem the Abinader administration has preferred not to tackle. That of the lawlessness allowed to motorcyclists in the Dominican Republic.

She looks into the case of a woman driver whose vehicle was assaulted by a motorcyclist who threw a rock at her, damaging her front window, and how the woman reacted ramming into the very surprised motorcyclist. Aizpun writes about how people on social media have applauded the action.

She concludes: “We are fed up.”

She says the incident is a reading into what people feel about this situation in which around two million lawless motorcyclists are every day placing everyone’s lives, including their own, in danger while the authorities look the other way.

She...