Frontier Corps gets new chief

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The Minister of the Armed Forces, Lt. General Ramon Aquino Garcia, has replaced the commanding officer of the Specialized Frontier Corps (Cesfront), Major General Adriano Silverio Rodriguez. General Silverio Rodriguez was given command of the Second Battalion in Santiago. The new commanding officer of Cesfront will be Major General Jorge Garcia. Sources close to the ministry described the move as "routine". However, the word along the frontier was that the very strict control that Silverio Rodriguez enforced brought him into conflict with officials, legislators, traders and other local figures. After just a week on the job, Cesfront put a halt to many of the illegal operations that were considered normal in the area, especially around Dajabon. Undocumented persons, stolen vehicles and cattle, drugs, and guns used to cross the frontier as a matter of routine, and apparently, Cesfront stemmed the flow to a considerable degree. This action apparently miffed local, informal traders who wanted Cesfront to be more "relaxed."

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