1996 – Page 104

Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Marquez, and former Colombian President, Julio César Turbay Ayala, whose government in 1981 was accused of forcing the novelist into exile, were reconciled during a meeting at Casa de Campo in La Romana that lasted seven hours. Mr Turbay was president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982, and Gabriel …

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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr Cesar Estrella Sahdalá, had no comment to make about a rumored maneuver condemned by PRD presidential candidate, José Francisco Peña Gómez, to name his nephew, the senator for Santiago, Eduardo Estrella, as the vice presidential candidate for the PRSC, thereby forcing him to resign from his post. …

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Leonel Fernandez, presidential candidate of the PLD, won favor with businessmen last week, when he advocated the abolition of the consular invoice, or factura consular. The illegal government levy on imports favors those assigned to consulates abroad by way of personal enrichment, for past political support, to use the words of a former under minister …

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The political parties have until 16 February to formally announce political alliances. So far, the party with the most is the PRD and its Acuerdo de Santo Domingo coalition. It brings together the following minority parties: Partido de la Unidad Democrática (UD,), Partido Nacional de Veteranos y Civiles (PNFC), Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata (PQD), Partido Democrático …

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In a commentary last week in the newspaper Hoy, Jesus de la Rosa, a staunch PRD man who was also in charge of the last census, criticized the positions of Jacinto Peynado and Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who have both claimed that a large number of Haitians have been given voting cards to …

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The governor of the Patronato del Faro a Colón, a long time PRSC party leader, has instructed those resident in the area near the monument to Columbus not to allow the placing of political propaganda on the walls, plazas or in the parking areas surrounding the Faro. Morales Troncoso has also been very vocal about …

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The secretary general of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, Licenciado, Hatuey de Camps, has suggested that the JCE contract a foreign company to audit the padron electoral., or voters list. He said that in Mexico this was undertaken by a Canadian company with satisfactory results. The PRSC has protested against some 75,000 alleged irregularities, principally involving …

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A microbiologist was able to revive a bacteria that was dormant for more than 25 million years in the stomach of a bee encapsulated in a piece of amber found in the Dominican Republic. The event is described in the “Discover” magazine of January 1996, and is mentioned among the 100 most outstanding scientific achievements …

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Five years after the Dominican Republic reported its last case of polio and the Pan American health Organization declared the country polio-free, several other illnesses seem to be on the road to eradication. The Ministry of Health says that measles, neonatal tetanus and whooping-cough have also entered into the process of elimination. In 1995 no …

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The city council of Santo Domingo is prosecuting the coordinator of the Oficina Supervisora y Fiscalizadora de Obras del Estado, engineer Bienvenido Martínez Brea and six other people, including its architect and contractor, Roberto Bergés, dean of architecture of the Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña, who are involved in the construction of a geriatric hospital on …

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