Mission accomplished

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The thirteen-day hunger strike by former Constitutionalist soldiers has ended after the National Lottery agreed to give them a pension of RD$8,000 per month, medical insurance and 1,000 food rations. The National Lottery also agreed to donate RD$40,000 to the Former Constitutionalist Soldiers Foundation, as well as RD$100,000 to pay the rent on their office space and RD$150,000 to buy a bus for the foundation. Protest leader Moises Ramirez del Villar assured the public that he fought in the 1965 Civil War and that he is 55 years old. Nevertheless, this would mean that Ramirez was just 11 years old when fighting broke out.

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