Dolores Vicioso – Page 8112

The Partido de la Liberación Dominicana reacted by indicating they are against the JCE granting “undetermined and unnumbered accreditations to an institution that has been created to observe the elections.” The PLD believes that the Junta Central Electoral (JCE) should accredit the electoral observers in a personal and individual manner. Dr. Leonel Fernández himself told …

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Ivelisse Prats de Pérez, a former Minister of Education and now director of the education section of the PRD, said that the statement made by Cardinal López Rodríguez against a program carried out by Monsignor Núñez Collado was but a “fight between priests… and we should not get involved.” She said that the Consejo Nacional …

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Notwithstanding what has appeared in the national press, a hitherto reliable and professional political observer told The NEWS that things are not what they appear to be. Rather than being a matter of a difference between Monsignor Agripino Núñez Collado and his chief, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, the observer feels that it was …

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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr. César Estrella Sadhalá told the press, in response to the statement by Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez about the alleged intent of foreigners to intervene in the 1996 election, that the organization that he directs, given its legal and constitutional attributes, is the only one that …

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President Joaquín Balaguer gave his shortest “State of the Nation” address on 27 February at the National Congress. In true Balaguer style, it was also one of the most enigmatic, to the point that he ended his speech by saying that “man is master of what he does not say and a slave to what …

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Monsignor Agripino Núñez, probably the country’s main arbitrator in political, labor and social conflicts, and whose university is participating in several projects funded by the United States to support Dominican democracy, ruled out that Dr Balaguer has the intention of remaining in power beyond 16 August 1996, in violation of the Pacto de la Democracia …

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In his 27 February speech, President Balaguer stressed his stand in not contracting foreign loans. He emphasized his efforts to carry out priority works with funds from the government’s own sources. He went on to say that he agrees with the privatization of the large public corporations and the “so-called” government companies but felt the …

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President Balaguer also spoke about the crisis that affects Dominican justice. He said, “No man nor people can live without trustworthy justice, a justice that guarantees the most elemental rights,” thereby urging Congress to advance on the selection of the judges that will form the Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura. Dominican justice is at its …

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The President had encouraging words for the establishment of close ties with Haiti in his 27 February speech. “I believe that the two nations on a single island of barely 78,000 square kilometers should live united like two Siamese twins, but separated politically because we are of two distinct ethnic groups. The Haitians would never …

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Rene Preval is expected to make an official visit on 12-13 March. It will precede his journey to Washington to meet with President Bill Clinton. A committee of Dominican businessmen travelled to Haiti Tuesday 5 March to meet with their Haitian counterparts. In his last speech to the nation on 27 February, Dr Balaguer supported …

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