Vantroi Suazo received the news that President Danilo Medina had appointed him Deputy Minister of Youth, while in his prison cell in Bani, where he is serving three months preventive custody for abusing his wife. He has four children with his wife.
He has already been in jail for a month and is currently awaiting a review of his coercive measures.
Suazo has a clothing shop and is an assistant to Senator Wilton Guerrero (PLD-Peravia) and president of the youth section of the Dominican Liberation Party in the Peravia province.
Following the announcement of the appointment, his wife Emadin Guaba, said that they just had an argument as ten-year married couples do, but that they agreed to seek counseling and begin a reconciliation process at the Gender Violence Unit of the Public Ministry in Baní. She said that the situation has been manipulated by parties interested in causing problems for herself and her husband.
However, less than 24 hours after appointing him, President Danilo Medina revoked the appointment. The President told the press he did not know Suazo was in jail.
Eli Heiliger, in a commentary in Diario Libre, wonders how the intelligence services of the government did not catch on to the arrest of Suazo for gender violence.
Diario Libre, on 21 February published a report confirming information in a file at the Unit for Attention to Gender and Intrafamiliar Violence of the Public Ministry of Baní, Peravia that disputes the downplaying by Guaba of the reasons for the arrest of her husband.
At the time, Guaba claimed that her husband, in a jealousy outbreak when finding another man in their home grabbed her by the arms and smashed her into a wall and with the handle of a gun bruised her arm and then threw her out of the house. She presented a legal medical certificate at the time of the complaint with the injuries suffered.
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21 February 2018
