DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

President Luis Abinader addressed the inaugural session of the 81st General Assembly of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). He told his audience that “any government that fears the press, fears the truth.” Abinader stressed the fact that government transparency, strong journalists, concerned citizens all produce a climate of freedom of the press.

Abinader strongly emphasized his government’s commitment to transparency, saying that criticisms only improve government. He also talked at length about the administration’s legislation that covers freedom of the press and the media, in order to bring it up-to-date in the era of digital communications, social platforms, disinformation and artificial intelligence. He also pronounced his litany regarding a free press: “Without a free press, there is no transparency; without transparency there is no...