Hoy newspaper reported that Miguel Cocco, director of the Department of Customs, and Danilo Medina, Secretary of the Presidency and political strategist of the PLD, met for an hour yesterday at 4 pm with former President Joaquin Balaguer at the latter’s home on Avenida Máximo Gómez. Also present was Guaroa Liranzo, an influential person during the Balaguer governments. The newspaper observed that Cocco and Medina entered the residency through the back street, Mahatma Gandhi, and not through the front entrance on Máximo Gómez avenue. Cocco has met previously with President Balaguer and press reports have indicated they have discussed a solution to the supposed involvement of PRSC members in a major contraband of luxury vehicles. The situation is delicate as the PLD has sought an alliance with the PRSC for the municipal and congressional election of May 1998.
