The Dominican Republic is under curfew (from 5pm to 6am), food, select industries, healthcare, and a handful of other businesses are allowed to operate. The country continues in a State of National Emergency. People are ordered to stay at home, and go out only for essential errands. Yet, as the restrictions are reaching the second month, more and more people are violating these, as reflected by social media. Social media is also covering how the Police has discriminated the rich and arrested the poor. El Caribe reports how people had met in Santiago at Oli’s Room on Calle Benito Juarez in Villa Olga well after 5pm. A patrol unit drove by and did not stop. Places up by the Monumento de Santiago and in Los Jardines Metropolitanos are showing traffic long after the curfew hour. On the other hand, there is a report on social media of Police seizing sports equipment of youths playing in their back yard after 5pm.
The situation is not much different in the barrios of the outskirts in Greater Santo Domingo. There are people visiting, sharing stories and drinking together quite openly.
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El Caribe.
11 May 2020