I hope the hours are ammended or even better, that they decide to completely do away with this idea and we can go back to the way things were.
Part of the reason I came here was because the "lack of order" here has a certain appeal to me. My life was so structured before and I felt like I was a robot going through time. Now, I simply feel I have more "room to breathe" than I did back in the USA. Until now.
Having said all that, I was in Boca Chica last week which is place I have only been to 3 or 4 times before. I understand that the "old" Boca Chica was like the wild wild west and that since it was "cleaned up" a year or so ago, it is a different place. Anyway, I drank a bunch of beer and decided I didn't want to drive back to the capital so I got a room for the night. What I saw at midnight scared me. The bars all closed at 12 on the dot and police were all over the street with lights and sirens and bullhorns telling everyone to "get out of the street". By 12:15 there was not a person in the street. Not a motoconcho....nothing. You could hear a pin drop. In reality, there is a curfew imposed there. I don't know if that is happining in other parts of the country but it is an example of the potential and the power they can excercise over you if Lionel or any future predsident sees fit.
For all those who say " I like the new law,I don't drink much anyway. Or I am an early bird anyway so who cares?". Can you all be that narrowminded?
They are randomly stopping cars on independencia in Santo Domingo and searching the occupants now. For all those who don't care about the changes or think they are good, tell me how you feel after your car is pulled over and some illiterate monkey in a uniform is putting his paws all over your girlfriend or wife "looking for drugs" Or going through your pockets, etc.
Welcome to the new Dominican Republic.....Police State.
Larry