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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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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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