05/2016 - Casa Blanca closed again...

[tgunz]

I know the resort are filled with mostly families. But I see plenty of regular tourist outside of resort. Especailly Europeans who take "holiday" a month at a time. pn sosua beach alone id say there are more of those types and expats, then mongers. Cabarettes monger dollar is minimal. I know Samana and Las terrenas do very well withnon monger tourist as well.

Casa Blanca is not a Gringo Destination. So I am very surprised. However there are many factors in play here. sounds like non Dominican owners, imported chicas are two very bog factors. When Passions in Santiago gets shut down ill accept that things are changing...

[Westy]

From what I've gleaned on this board over the past few years, plus what little I've observed on the ground in Sosua and Boca Chica (small ponds in both cases), this is the sense that I get: We are a minority among tourists in the DR. We may seem to be a significant minority, perhaps, in Sosua and Boca Chica, but in fact, we're only prevalent in a small subsection of each of those towns ... a couple of hundred yards around where Pedro Clisante crosses Calle Dr. Rosen in Sosua, and Avenida Duarte from the Boat House to Parque Central, in Boca Chica.

It also appears that most of the trade is Dominicans with Dominicans. How that works out, I don't know; I'm an outsider and I know it. Some of our expats in the DR can probably tell us more about that: Yayow, Mr. Happy, Weyland, Camaro ... (Whatever happened to Seville and Jose1234? Haven't heard from them in a LONG while.) But if "the trade" catered only to foreign tourists, it wouldn't be much of a "trade."

Where we monger tourists ARE significant, is with the girls who come in to our favored destinations. They stand to make a lot of money on us, or at any rate a "lot of money" by their standards ... if they get a catch. And, of course, if they can pull in a good sucker or a Captain Save-A-Ho, they might even get a monthly supplement as a Western Union novia ... and that long-term game is really worth their playing, if they can get aboard.

[MrHappy]

From what I've gleaned on this board over the past few years, plus what little I've observed on the ground in Sosua and Boca Chica (small ponds in both cases), this is the sense that I get: We are a minority among tourists in the DR. We may seem to be a significant minority, perhaps, in Sosua and Boca Chica, but in fact, we're only prevalent in a small subsection of each of those towns ... a couple of hundred yards around where Pedro Clisante crosses Calle Dr. Rosen in Sosua, and Avenida Duarte from the Boat House to Parque Central, in Boca Chica.

It also appears that most of the trade is Dominicans with Dominicans. How that works out, I don't know; I'm an outsider and I know it. Some of our expats in the DR can probably tell us more about that: Yayow, Mr. Happy, Weyland, Camaro ... (Whatever happened to Seville and Jose1234? Haven't heard from them in a LONG while.) But if "the trade" catered only to foreign tourists, it wouldn't be much of a "trade."

Where we monger tourists ARE significant, is with the girls who come in to our favored destinations. They stand to make a lot of money on us, or at any rate a "lot of money" by their standards ... if they get a catch. And, of course, if they can pull in a good sucker or a Captain Save-A-Ho, they might even get a monthly supplement as a Western Union novia ... and that long-term game is really worth their playing, if they can get aboard.

Let's put up some numbers.

Let's say the DR gets 700 sex tourists a week. (pulled out of the air, but 100 a day sounds nice but is probably high)

The DR is pulling in something like 5 million tourists a year.

100 a day is 36500 a year. Divided by 5 million gives .007%

A minority? I think so. Wiping mongering off the map here isn't even a blip on the radar.

[Jimmydr]

Let's put up some numbers.

Let's say the DR gets 700 sex tourists a week. (pulled out of the air, but 100 a day sounds nice but is probably high)

The DR is pulling in something like 5 million tourists a year.

100 a day is 36500 a year. Divided by 5 million gives .007%

A minority? I think so. Wiping mongering off the map here isn't even a blip on the radar.

we spend billions a year and to those that get a piece, its everything.

[MrHappy]

So.... Here's the latest.

All of those expensive cars and jeepetas that were confiscated and are being held at the police station - somebody stole the rearview mirrors off of them... lol

[SeaWeed]

So.... Here's the latest.

All of those expensive cars and jeepetas that were confiscated and are being held at the police station - somebody stole the rearview mirrors off of them... lol

oh dat nuthin...recently in Negril, Jamaica the police had one of der 200,00US Police boats stolen...it showed up in Honduras stripped

[Westy]

Let's put up some numbers.

Let's say the DR gets 700 sex tourists a week. (pulled out of the air, but 100 a day sounds nice but is probably high)

The DR is pulling in something like 5 million tourists a year.

100 a day is 36500 a year. Divided by 5 million gives .007%

A minority? I think so. Wiping mongering off the map here isn't even a blip on the radar.

Slight decimal error ... when I did your math, 36500/5,000,000 = 0.73%

Which doesn't void your premise. Less than one percent - that's a drop in the bucket. And if we had figures on how many Dominican men pay for putas, for escorts, for mistresses ... I would bet the gringo mongers would be a drop in THAT bucket, too.

[Jimmydr]

Slight decimal error ... when I did your math, 36500/5,000,000 = 0.73%

. And if we had figures on how many Dominican men pay for putas, for escorts, for mistresses ... I would bet the gringo mongers would be a drop in THAT bucket, too.

You need to add it to that bucket.

It all gets combined.

[DCIronman]

I know the resort are filled with mostly families. But I see plenty of regular tourist outside of resort. Especailly Europeans who take "holiday" a month at a time. pn sosua beach alone id say there are more of those types and expats, then mongers. Cabarettes monger dollar is minimal. I know Samana and Las terrenas do very well withnon monger tourist as well.

Casa Blanca is not a Gringo Destination. So I am very surprised. However there are many factors in play here. sounds like non Dominican owners, imported chicas are two very bog factors. When Passions in Santiago gets shut down ill accept that things are changing...

Pasiones has already been shut down a few times in the past couple of years. Once, they were shut down for supposedly having minors working there. It was back open a few weeks later. Bribes get paid. Business goes on as usual.

I would be shocked if Casa Blanca was owned by non-dominicans. Someone told me that it has been an institution in Santiago since the 1950s. I can't see Casa Blanca ever shutting down for good.

[tgunz]

Pasiones has already been shut down a few times in the past couple of years. Once, they were shut down for supposedly having minors working there. It was back open a few weeks later. Bribes get paid. Business goes on as usual.

I would be shocked if Casa Blanca was owned by non-dominicans. Someone told me that it has been an institution in Santiago since the 1950s. I can't see Casa Blanca ever shutting down for good.

Except for visiting once I don't know much about casa Blanca. But the women were fine, and it was much nicer then passions. For some reason I thought if was foreign owned. Guess I confused it with one of the whore houses in SDQ.

Passions is probably the most famous whorehouse on the island. I should have stated until a place like that get shut down Indefinitely, I m not concerned.


Question. Have they ever shut down the bigger carwashes in STI. Just curious.

[Jimmydr]

I would be shocked if Casa Blanca was owned by non-dominicans. Someone told me that it has been an institution in Santiago since the 1950s. I can't see Casa Blanca ever shutting down for good.

I first went there in 1997.


Its a cool place.

[minkyboodle]

I know the resort are filled with mostly families. But I see plenty of regular tourist outside of resort. Especailly Europeans who take "holiday" a month at a time. pn sosua beach alone id say there are more of those types and expats, then mongers. Cabarettes monger dollar is minimal. I know Samana and Las terrenas do very well withnon monger tourist as well.

Casa Blanca is not a Gringo Destination. So I am very surprised. However there are many factors in play here. sounds like non Dominican owners, imported chicas are two very bog factors. When Passions in Santiago gets shut down ill accept that things are changing...

Passions Closed

[hugrad95a]

Might this be her?

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She is from Santiago.... I passed on her several times... And laughed at her initial ST quote as she was giving that hurry up and leche vibe. Later she saw me 3 or 4 days later and agreed to 2k ST.. But it was my last night and I didnt want to waste it on her....

[Apos]

http://www.nicepeoplenetworking.com/...hutter-motels/

Dominican and Venezuela officials bust prostitution ring and shutter motels


Santiago.- The Justice Ministry said Friday that it shuttered the sex motels Helios and Galaxy, owned by Juan Antonio Fernandez, who also operated the closed strip club Casa Blanca last May, charged with money laundering, human trafficking and possession of illegal weapons, and will be held for 18 months to await trial.
Anti-Money Laundering officials raided the motels located on the Duarte highway near La Vega (central) Thursday morning, and at 1pm closed the Helios, which has 56 cabanas and a restaurant. An unspecified time after, the officials said they also shuttered the Galaxy, which has 40 cabanas and a restaurant.
It also emerged yesterday that prosecutors try to locate other properties owned by Fernandez, from who the authorities last May seized US$800,000 and 11 million pesos in cash, luxury cars and guns of various calibers, during the raid at Casa Blanca, where officials “rescued” 45 Colombian and Venezuelan women, presumably prostitutes.
On that occasion a Santiago Judicial District court sent Fernández, Grismelda Amarilis Jolvert Merejo and Venezuelan Jose Ramirez to 18 months in prison, whereas Mary Magdalene Batista and Jairo Correa were released on RD$2.0 million bail each.
The group is charged with money laundering, human trafficking and weapons violation.
Santiago prosecutor Luisa Liranzo said Friday that the Venezuelan Johnny Eliexer Cordero Belisario, arrested by Interpol in a sting dubbed Spartacus III carried out in 25 countries, was being sought for his alleged link to club Casa Blanca.
A red alert for fugitives was issued for Cordero, wanted on charges of luring hundreds of Venezuelan and Colombian women to travel to the Dominican Republic where they were allegedly forced into prostitution.
Liranzo said Cordero was linked to 45 foreign women who were allegedly sexually exploited in Casa Blanca, adding that Santiago and Venezuelan prosecutors worked jointly to achieve his arrest. “The Venezuelan and Dominican authorities are immersed in the prosecution of the accused under arrest.”
Source: DT
July 30, 2016

[MrHappy]

And today a Judge has ordered Passion Night Club in Santiago can be reopened... ( a female judge no less)

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