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Public Works Minister Miguel Vargas promises the facilities under construction for the Santo Domingo Pan Am Games will be ready in time, and that ?finger-crossing is not necessary?, as reported in the List?n Diario.  But with barely two months to go to the 1 August opening of the Pan American Games, most of the installations …

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List?n Diario reports that President Hip?lito Mej?a has agreed to find a definite solution to the case in which the Banco de Reservas, the governmental commercial bank, discounts RD$40 million a month from Santo Domingo city finances to pay for the Fenatrano buses imported by the government. The past PRD city government under former Mayor …

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Today’s papers report that the legal negotiations to allow the sale of assets of Baninter, the collapsed bank, have advanced a step further, while lawyers for the Baninter Group claim that the process is illegal. The government appears to want the transaction to go through as speedily as possible, but the legal defense team for …

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Armed Forces Minister Jos? Miguel Soto Jimenez has called on the Central Bank to publicize the list of 70 generals alleged to have received gifts from Baninter. According to the Central Bank report, which detailed the scope of the Baninter collapse, the bank president paid the cell phone bills of 70 generals, made monthly payments …

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PLD leader and presidential pre-candidate Leonel Fern?ndez denied that he held a RD$300-million account in Baninter, as was alleged by C?sar S?nchez, an activist of the PPH, Hip?lito?s re-election campaign group. Fern?ndez’ legal team of Mariano Germ?n, Radham?s Jim?nez and Abel Rodr?guez del Orbe called on S?nchez, who is also the director of the CDEEE …

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Manuel Guaroa Liranzo, a Baninter board member and leading shareholder, spent almost four hours with the Baninter case judge, Eduardo S?nchez Ort?z, yesterday, answering questions related to the bank’s collapse. Liranzo served as treasurer to the bank?s council of directors at the time of the collapse, but preferred to describe himself as the owner of …

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President Hip?lito Mej?a said yesterday that he would include members of the PRSC in his government, as well as ?new PRD faces?, should he win the 2004 Presidential election. He referred to PRSC members as “compatriots” and referred to his friendship with late PRSC leader and former President Joaqu?n Balaguer, which came after what he …

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Jacinto Peynado has declared that he would hold his own convention, despite losing to Eduardo Estrella in the PRSC presidential primary election. Peynado has not yet accepted Estrella’s victory, and alleges that there was widespread fraud involved. Diario Libre comments in its “El Esp?a” column that the silence from the PRSC’s Quique Ant?n has been …

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Hoy’s lead story unravels the tale of an “apocryphal” document causing confusion at the Central Electoral Board (JCE). The document in question contains details of the makeup of the ruling PRD party’s national executive committee, and a source inside the JCE told Hoy’s reporter that the Board’s secretary, Antonio Lockward Artiles, was suspended from his …

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Hoy newspaper reports that an unnamed PRSC deputy proposed to Congress yesterday a modification to the Constitution that would add two more years to the term of the President elected on 16 May 2004. At present, the Constitution establishes a Dominican presidential term of four years. The argument being used for the amendment is the …

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