Starting tonight, joint military/police patrols will be patrolling major urban centers in the DR, enforcing a 12 midnight curfew for all businesses selling alcoholic beverages. These measures are intended not to fight crime, but to reduce crime by discouraging people away from nighttime entertainment activities in order to reduce the exposure of the general public to crime. President Fernandez appears to have succumbed to the advise of political associates who want his administration to steer more and more toward a dictatorial regime...