NewsWhore
03-07-2008, 03:50 PM
Her final wish is to die in her native Dominican Republic and she might have her wish granted. Diario Libre is reporting that the Presidential Social Plan will provide US$22,000 in funds in order to bring Lucy de Silfa back to the DR on a medical plane. Eighty-one year old de Silfa, who fought against Trujillo, is seriously ill with cancer in a New York hospital. Social Plan public relations officer Roberto Monclus said that when the Plan's director read the news, he made the moves to get the money and informed Silfa's friends and family. Diario Libre writes that de Silfa spent 30 years fighting against the Trujillo dictatorship and was one of the founding members of the PRD party.
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