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IOC President to visit

President of the Organizing Committee of the Pan American Games, neurosurgeon Jose Joaquin Puello, has announced that the recently-elected president of the International Olympic Committtee, Jacques Rogge of Belgium, will visit the DR on 15 August. Rogge is a surgeon, former Olympic competitor in yachting, and until recently was president of the European Olympic Committee. …
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World Bank economist warns bill creates power oligopoly

The chief economist of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean, Guillermo Perry, warns that the electricity framework recently passed by Congress creates a power oligopoly that will harm consumers. The bill, as modified by the Chamber of Deputies, allows distributors to become major power production players, contrary to the spirit of competition …