President Leonel Fernandez traveled to Miami yesterday. During a meeting with Dominicans living in Miami, he addressed the recent wave of violence in the DR and attributed this to an increase in drug trafficking following the relaxing of law enforcement efforts to combat drug trafficking. He said that his government will confront crime without respite until a sense of safety is returned to the Dominican people. He said the country is suffering from the effects of the “debris left by a political hurricane,” in clear ireference to the past administration.
President Leonel Fernandez traveled to Miami on Sunday, 10 October to participate in a Monday morning encounter with Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Bush is expected to lobby for the vote for Miami to become the headquarters to the Free Trade Area of the Americas headquarters. The Mejia administration had already committed the Dominican vote would favor Panama as the host city.
President Fernandez will also be keynote speaker at a lunch with leading Floridian businessmen at the historic landmark Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Fernandez is scheduled to return Monday evening.