2010 – Page 253

Lawyer Vinicio Castillo Seman questions the US$3 billion investment touted by Barrick Gold. The lawyer says that one has to separate the actual investment from the loans the company is securing to carry out the exploitation. “Dominican society has to demand clarity and transparency in the concession contract and its execution,” he writes in today’s …

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Representatives of more than 130 nations, non-governmental organizations and other groups filled the main hall at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 31 March when attending the donors’ conference to show solidarity with Haiti in the wake of the 12 January earthquake. The donors pledged contributions for the country’s long-term recovery and reconstruction. …

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During the traditional Seven Last Words of Christ sermon on Saturday, Catholic Church priests criticized the way in which the government seems to have forgotten the Dominican people, neglecting education, stimulating impunity, corruption, violence and the trafficking of influences. The sermons at the Santo Domingo Cathedral were read by seven priests who said that these …

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Authorities in Puerto Rico denied rumors that fugitive drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto had been arrested on Saturday, 3 April. The rumor started when Diario Libre published a report claiming that the couple had been arrested in Puerto Rico. Figueroa Agosto operated a major drug trafficking ring in the DR for around 10 years …

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The US originally requested the extradition of Fautino Perozo on 27 February 2005, as part of investigations into the drug smuggling case involving former army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo. Last week the Dominican Prosecutors Office announced that the fugitive from Dominican justice had traveled here from Spain to turn himself in. But on 30 …

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Now it is speculated that the RD$200,000 that was to have been paid for the murder of Jose Gabriel Arias Castillo (Alex El Pelotero) in the La Victoria jail was counterfeit. Arias was in jail after being arrested on suspicion of being an accomplice of fugitive drug baron Figueroa Agosto. Allegedly, the money was paid …

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Speaking on 31 March, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez said that he was sure that Puerto Rican drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto has been “very protected” both in the DR and in Puerto Rico. Figueroa Agosto walked from a Puerto Rican jail where he had been sentenced to 209 years, after the jail …

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Investigative journalist Alicia Ortega of Noticias SIN reported that Jose Figueroa Agosto and Sobeida Felix Morel spent a month at the Hotel San Juan Water and Beach Club in Puerto Rico, where they behaved like normal tourists. Ortega said that they had stayed at the hotel since the end of January. Ortega says that US …

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Spaniard Juan Antonio Hidalgo de Moya, administrator of the company Star Marble, responsible for the shipment of the freight containers to Spain in which 1,200 kilograms of cocaine were found, was arrested and later released. The shipment was made to a company registered in the name of Arturo del Tiempo Marques, who was arrested in …

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A Spanish online site has revealed that arrested real estate developer Arturo del Tiempo Marques had been enrolled in the Dominican Police, as reported in Diario Libre. Police Chief Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin later confirmed that Arturo del Tiempo Marques, arrested in Spain on drug trafficking charges, had been enrolled in the Police …

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