DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The trending topic in the Dominican Republic, in the news and in friends gathering, is Venezuela. The Dominican Republic has strong historic ties with Venezuela and a long history of Dominican migration to Venezuela and migration of Venezuelans to the Dominican Republic.

President Luis Abinader has established his position regarding Venezuela, one that he says does not have to do with any particular leader. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado denounced on Monday, 30 July that the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had been declared winner by 73% of the electoral counts in the voting stations. The electoral authorities of Venezuela nevertheless declared Maduro the winner of the Sunday election.

“I express my deep concern about the electoral process in Venezuela, emphasizing that transparency must be the cornerstone of its legitimacy. Electoral...