NewsWhore
07-31-2007, 05:10 PM
The US Embassy in the DR has prohibited its employees from visiting the popular Santo Domingo nightclub "Loft" because of alleged racial discrimination practiced by the nightclub. Roland Bullen, Charge d'Affaires at the Embassy, informed all US citizens belonging to the diplomatic mission that they should not visit that club because it did not allow admission of an African-American US Embassy employee on 22 July. Bullen said that in 2005 his predecessor Lisa Kubiske tried to persuade several Santo Domingo nightclub owners to change their admissions policies because of continued complaints from African-American embassy employees. Bullen says that it is rare for an embassy to make a decision of this type, but added that the clubs are violating both Dominican and US laws.
See the Embassy press release on the matter at: www.usemb.gov.do/nprensa/Discoteca_Loft.htm (http://www.usemb.gov.do/nprensa/Discoteca_Loft.htm)
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See the Embassy press release on the matter at: www.usemb.gov.do/nprensa/Discoteca_Loft.htm (http://www.usemb.gov.do/nprensa/Discoteca_Loft.htm)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)