Hundreds of thousands of residents in the southwest of the Dominican Republic spontaneously turned out to be part of a nationwide protest for an end to corruption and impunity. The protest march took place on Sunday, 21 May 2017 in the city of Azua, about an hour and a half drive west of Santo Domingo.
The Azua 3-km march was the fourth mass protest organized by the Green March Movement nationwide. As the march moved through the city of Azua, thousands of citizens joined in protest attired in green.
As reported in El Dia, Juan Encarnación from San José de Ocoa stated: “I am marching against corruption, theft and lack of justice. We are seeing that there is a government that is an accomplice of all this and the people cannot afford the luxury of this continuing,” he stated.
The march ended with an event in the Parque Enriquillo where speakers criticized President Danilo Medina for obstructing justice and placing himself above the law and his constitutional role to favor impunity in the case of the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. The speakers argued that Medina and attorney general Jean Alain Rodríguez maneuvered so that overpricing could not be reviewed in the Odebrecht case.
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El Dia
22 May 2017
