03/2019 - Dominican Today

[camaro1257]

Dominican authorities deport a planeload of Italian fugitives

Santo Domingo.- The National Police announced Wednesday the capture and subsequent deportation of five Italian fugitives wanted for various crimes.A jet from Italy came to the country to take away Lucio Gali, 71; Salvatore Buobanno, 42; Massimo Ferrari, 52; Abele Chiarolini, 78, and Mauro Nadalin, 55, according to a statement from the National Police.The group was deported to Italy after being escorted “under strict security” by Interpol agents and Dominican Police officers to Las Americas International Airport.

[Hunter]

Lot of shady criminals from around world in DR.....careful

[camaro1257]

Dominican Govt. to build a wall at border town

Precedent in futility: Barbed wire fence at Pedernales.

The Government will build a wall at the border town El Carrizal, western Elías Piña province, to control the flow of people and goods to and from Haiti, “seeking effective and efficient actions in the security of the area,” Customs said on Tues.

Customs spokesperson Lissette Selman told El Dia that the border wall will delineate the Dominican and Haitian territories with stricter Customs control and will help Haitian customs collect the duties on the goods that enter that country.

Precedent

In 2013 Haitian authorities built a wall nearly eight kilometers from the Dominican Immigration and Customs offices Selman said that in addition to the wall, offices will be built for other agencies including Immigration and Border Security.

[Irie]

A recent articles in reputable news sources here (i.e. not Sosua News lol), wrote that they have now amassed more than 8,000 troops along the border in anticipation of a possible mass exodus.

The situation in Haiti has been deteriorating rapidly for the last several months. I here stories most daily........and they're not pleasant. Hoping for intervention/ whatever soon......and order is restored. Good people in a crazy situation.

[voltage69]

I've heard it said theres only 2 types of gringos who live in the DR.. the wanted, and the unwanted.

[CentralNJDude]

The two buddies I know that are settled on the South and North Coast dont fall into that generic classification.
Maybe they havent been telling me about their previous escapades.

[camaro1257]

The two buddies I know that are settled on the South and North Coast dont fall into that generic classification.
Maybe they havent been telling me about their previous escapades.

Maybe those two guys...

...are unwanted x cops...

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[Jimmydr]

I've heard it said theres only 2 types of gringos who live in the DR.. the wanted, and the unwanted.

Broke and not broke

[camaro1257]

Economy March 14, 2019 | 11:00 am

Wary of US Budget cuts, NYC Dominicans start packing their bags




New York.- Dominicans living in New York City say they’re preparing to return to the Dominican Republic after learning that the US budget submitted by president Donald Trump for the next fiscal year includes substantial cuts in health, housing and education services.“You know how it is, immigrants will not be able to live in US territory,” caution Dominicans in the Bronx, Upper Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, who, as usual declined to give their names or being photographed, “because you know how it is.”They labeled Trump’s decision is inhumane for trimming the budget to those agencies, which jeopardizes tens of millions of Americans.

[camaro1257]

Local March 29, 2019 | 7:44 am AI slams Dominican Republic police who ‘torture’ sex workers: EFE

Mexico.– Rape and torture, often at gunpoint, have become standard practices by Dominican Republic’s police towards sex workers, Amnesty International (AI) revealed Thursday, EFE reportsThe study “If they can have it, why not one?” lays bare the stories of 46 cis-gender and transgender Dominican sex workers, many of whom reported having suffered different forms of gender-based violence.The term cis-gender refers to persons whose gender identity coincides with that granted to them by their sexual organ.At least 10 of the 24 cis-gender women interviewed for the report said they were raped by police, often at gunpoint.In addition, numerous transgender women reported that the police had burned their wigs or forced them to clean squalid jail cells.

[camaro1257]

ocal March 26, 2019 | 2:42 pm Canadian gunned down in Puerto Plata had drug trafficking links




Puerto Plata.- Mike Di Battista, a Canadian gunned down in Puerto Plata Sunday night, had links to various drug trafficking organizations, according to the CTV.Di Batista was shot several times inside his vehicle at the gated community La Mulata, of the Residencial Lomas del Sol sector, in Sosua.The police said they found two passports, one Italian and one Canadian inside his Hyundai Santa Fe SUV.CTV News of Montreal reported that in February 4, 2015, Di Battista and Mathieu Bouchard were fugitives wanted in connection with the bust of a mafia group that was “engaged in a sophisticated method of chemically mixing drugs in asphalt, known as a molecular coupling.”The report cites the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP, which of the seizure of an unusually large cargo of 700 asphalt, which it linked to the so-called Silvano cell, linked in turn with the groups Bastone, the Hell’s Angels and De Vito, part of which had been jailed since 2014 as a result of the undercover operation, Project Clemenza.

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