Major General Eduardo Alberto Then stated last week on “El Gobierno de la Mañana” radio talk show that the National Police would not recruit the children of single mothers. And boy, did that kick up a storm on social media. Entities from the Ministry of the Woman to former Vice President Margarita Cedeño took very vocal exception to this statement. It is estimated that a single mom heads 40% of Dominican households.
The radio program, “El Gobierno de la Mañana” would remove the audio, but social media had already spread the unfortunate statement. Since then, the general has been backpedaling to anyone who would listen.
Major General Then has been in the news a lot lately since he was the commanding officer of the Barahona region when some of his agents took down a really huge stash of cocaine. At the time, nothing was published on the August 2021 “tumbe,” but when in...
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