Dolores Vicioso – Page 8111

The Chief of Police, Antonio Segundo Imbert Tesson, has announced the arrest of four owners of video rental shops for possessing pirated copies of the successful Dominican film “Nueba Yol”, directed by Angel Muñiz. Genis Sanchez of “Video Exclusivo” in Santo Domingo, Julio de los Santos and Prospero Leandro Ruiz of an unidentified shop in …

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The Attorney General of the National District, Zoila Martinez de Medina, returned to work on 28 February after recovering from an car accident suffered one week earlier. She was forced to wear a neck brace after her jeep collided with another vehicle on the corner of Calles Bernardo Pichardo and Leonor de Ovando in Gazcue. …

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Political, judicial and religious leaders continued to speak out against the possible establishment of a “Satanic Church” in Sosua, Puerto Plata. The Senator of the province of Puerto Plata, Rafael Octavio Silverio Galan, told the news media that foreigners – mostly from the U.S. and France – have continued to arrive in the D.R. in …

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The Haitian President, Rene Preval, who is planning an official state visit to see President Balaguer, will also meet with 40 businessmen of the National Council of Private Enterprise (CONEP) in Port-Au-Prince on Tuesday, 5 March at a special luncheon given at the Haitian National Palace. Mr. Preval and representatives of CONEP were originally to …

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The Dominican Davis Cup tennis team has gone to El Salvador to participate in the Zone 3 of America round robin series. The Dominicans will compete against Trinidad & Tobago on 5 March, Antigua on the 6th, Haiti on the 7th, and against Costa Rica on the 9th. The winner of Zone 3 will move …

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The Director of Immigration, Vitelio Mejia Ortiz, announced that by next week, 20,000 restrictions on leaving the country affecting both Dominicans and foreigners will be lifted. Mr. Mejia Ortiz said that the measure is a result of a study undertaken with the National Attorney General’s office to determine who has either served a complete jail …

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Jacobo Majluta, one of the Dominican Republic’s most outstanding politicians of all time, died on Saturday, 2 March in the Lee Moffit Cancer Center & Research Institute of Tampa, Florida. The charismatic former President of the Republic was 62 years old. He died of complications resulting from the chemotherapy treatment he was undergoing for pulmonary …

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The news story of the week, overshadowing President Balaguer’s Independence Day speech to Congress, was the condemnation by Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez of a possible U.S. intervention in the forthcoming presidential election via a network of observers. What made the matter even more interesting is that the Red de Observadores Electorales the Cardinal …

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The Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra answered the Cardinal’s allegations in a paid advertisement by stating that since August 1995 the university has been in charge of the Proyecto de Fortalecimiento de Institucionalización de la Democracia en la República Dominicana a través de la Sociedad Civil. This body “has applied to the U.S. Agency …

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Participación Ciudadana in a paid advertisement in the newspaper on 29 February demanded that the Cardinal present the proof of his statement, which they considered, by the tone in which it was made, to be bordering on the slanderous. The principal members of Participación Ciudadana are Isidoro Santana, Federico Bonnelly, Josefina Padilla, Pedro Catrain, Gustavo …

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