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09-27-2006, 06:40 PM
After weeks of positive reports from the Police and security services, it appears that the effects of last July's Presidential decrees are wearing off. Today's newspapers are reporting a renewal of violence at pre-decree levels. Three people were killed on the Padre Castellanos Avenue in Santo Domingo, in a confusing incident that the police have yet to clear up. In the Los Alcarrizos district of Santo Domingo, newspaper and radio journalist Facundo Lavatta was laid to rest, after being killed by an unknown gunman while playing dominos in a corner store near his home. The Police say that they have some leads in the case.
In Navarrete, public protests filled the streets with burning tires, garbage and tree branches as people protested against the death of FALPO spokesperson Elvis "Onny" Rodriguez, in what the police described as "an armed confrontation with a police patrol." FALPO is the acronym for the "Broad Front for Popular Struggle", the leading organization that organizes protests against blackouts and lack of public services in many areas of the Cibao region. As a result of the incidents in Navarrete, public demonstrations in support of FALPO took place in San Francisco de Macoris where a lieutenant, a sergeant major, a corporal and a student were wounded. Gunshots and rocks were the order of the day in San Francisco as students at the UASD branch in town reacted to the news of Elvis Rodriguez's death. Masked youths engaged in a shoot-out with police inside the CURNE campus. The university branch director claimed that they were not students at the university. Apparently the wounded student had been attacked by seven masked individuals who were shooting and throwing garbage in the streets. According to Hoy, the young man was traveling towards the main San Francisco de Macoris police station.
El Nacional reported over the weekend that liquor-vending operations continue to sell to drivers.
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In Navarrete, public protests filled the streets with burning tires, garbage and tree branches as people protested against the death of FALPO spokesperson Elvis "Onny" Rodriguez, in what the police described as "an armed confrontation with a police patrol." FALPO is the acronym for the "Broad Front for Popular Struggle", the leading organization that organizes protests against blackouts and lack of public services in many areas of the Cibao region. As a result of the incidents in Navarrete, public demonstrations in support of FALPO took place in San Francisco de Macoris where a lieutenant, a sergeant major, a corporal and a student were wounded. Gunshots and rocks were the order of the day in San Francisco as students at the UASD branch in town reacted to the news of Elvis Rodriguez's death. Masked youths engaged in a shoot-out with police inside the CURNE campus. The university branch director claimed that they were not students at the university. Apparently the wounded student had been attacked by seven masked individuals who were shooting and throwing garbage in the streets. According to Hoy, the young man was traveling towards the main San Francisco de Macoris police station.
El Nacional reported over the weekend that liquor-vending operations continue to sell to drivers.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)