went back to Santiago from Puerto plata and took route 25( the middle road from the north into santiago) it also may be called the luperon road, on sunday. We ran into a make shift road block that really had me worried.
There were about 5 or 6 guys, heavily armed in black uniforms( except one guy in street clothes and a bullet proof vest) with the letters G (something ) S...I cant remember the exact letters...I think there were only three letters. They were stopping cars looking for firearms supposedly..and actually asked me to pull over....I gave them a lot of english complaining, to try and prevent it......luckily my girlfriend has finally come around to helping me get out of situatuions, instead of just sit there and stay silent. I thought for sure it was a shakedown. They were with this one guy with a big brand new SUV from the time I first saw the block until well after I lost sight of them. He was dressed very good, some maybe they were shaking him down good.
they had FALs with taped double magazines!!! and three had their pistols in THEIR HANDS!! all were wearing bullet proof vests. and there were no "official" vehicles in sight.
I have seen plenty of different uniforms, but nothing like these guys.
does anyone know about who these guys are?
a guy on the plane thought they might have been some anti drug unit.
they looked very serious, take it from me..... they were ready to get into at a seconds notice..........
bob
There were about 5 or 6 guys, heavily armed in black uniforms( except one guy in street clothes and a bullet proof vest) with the letters G (something ) S...I cant remember the exact letters...I think there were only three letters. They were stopping cars looking for firearms supposedly..and actually asked me to pull over....I gave them a lot of english complaining, to try and prevent it......luckily my girlfriend has finally come around to helping me get out of situatuions, instead of just sit there and stay silent. I thought for sure it was a shakedown. They were with this one guy with a big brand new SUV from the time I first saw the block until well after I lost sight of them. He was dressed very good, some maybe they were shaking him down good.
they had FALs with taped double magazines!!! and three had their pistols in THEIR HANDS!! all were wearing bullet proof vests. and there were no "official" vehicles in sight.
I have seen plenty of different uniforms, but nothing like these guys.
does anyone know about who these guys are?
a guy on the plane thought they might have been some anti drug unit.
they looked very serious, take it from me..... they were ready to get into at a seconds notice..........
bob