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Teatro las Mascaras at Arzobispo Portes 56 in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City presents Black Date, a play by Mario Diament that is a tribute to Argentinean playwright Jorge Luis Borges. It opens a space to discuss chance and destiny. The play, which opened at the small Colonial City venue on 23 January 2015, will run …

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Maridalia Hernandez, one of the best Dominican singers of all times, is booked for a performance this evening, Friday, 30 January and next Friday, 4 February 2015 at the Hard Rock Cafe Blue Mall in Santo Domingo. 9pm. For reservations, call 809 686-7771. 8pm. Tickets are RD$1,500 and RD$2,500 VIP.

If you are into merengue dancing, El Torito is booked for the Maunaloa nightclub in the Centro de los Heroes in Santo Domingo tomorrow evening, Saturday, 31 January 2015. 9m. Av. Heroes de Luperon 29, Tel 809 535-8010. For more on upcoming events, see http://dr1.com/calendar

In his address to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit in Costa Rica yesterday, Wednesday 28 January 2015, President Danilo Medina stated that the allocation of 4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to education, the launch of the 911 National Emergencies and Security System and the addition of hundreds of …

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In his column in Diario Libre today, Thursday 29 January 2015, economic analyst Alejandro Fernandez writes that the government is keeping the savings from the lower cost of oil for itself. “Now, in the first seven months after the price of oil peaked at US$105 in June 2014, the price of premium gasoline has only …

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By allowing his closest and most trusted circle to promote his re-election, President Danilo Medina appears to be in the process of sounding out public opinion and assessing the political cost of the decision, and the main hurdle could be faced in the National Congress. According to political scientists Daniel Pou and Freddy Angel Castro, …

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For the third time, thousands of people assembled in front of the National Congress building to ask legislators to modify the Constitution in order to restore presidential re-election and permit President Danilo Medina to be re-nominated. “The People Command” movement leader Abel Tejada served as the spokesman for the representatives of some 20 groups taking …

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After presidential legal advisor Cesar Pina Toribio said publicly that there was no time for President Danilo Medina to seek re-election, and Medina’s close aide Jose Ramon Peralta responded by saying that there was time, the controversy is being covered in the press. Two years into his first term of office, Medina is one of …

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The Ministry of Interior and Police has announced that the National Foreigner Legalization Plan offices will be open this weekend, Saturday, 31 January and Sunday, 1 February 2015 to receive applications from foreigners who were born in the Dominican Republic to parents with illegal immigration status before 18 April 2007. The applicants need to register …

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The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) political commission has sworn in Tony Pena Guaba as its new general secretary. Pena Guaba recently resigned from the PRD dissident party Dominican Revolutionary Modern Party (PRM). After being sworn in by Miguel Vargas yesterday, Wednesday 28 January 2015, he said that it had been a mistake to leave the …

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