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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, News Email, Public Security |
| Title: | Dominican Military Patrol Streets To Fight Crime |
| Author/Source: | Marguerite Cawley Insight Crime |
| Brief: | The Dominican military has begun patrolling the streets alongside the country's police force in an effort to reduce high crime levels, a move sure to feed concerns over the blending of military-police roles. |
Friday, April 26, 2013
| Location: | Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama |
| Category: | Human Trafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Desarticulan banda que traficaba personas |
| Author/Source: | Alonso Mejia El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Se desconoce a cuantas personas introdujeron al pais, pero serian mas de 30, segun las primeras pesquisas. Esa cantidad puede ir aumentando conforme avancen las investigaciones. |
Thursday, April 25, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ministro de Interior y Mejia tratan protestas |
| Author/Source: | Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | El ministro de Interior y Policia, Jose Ramon Fadul, trato ayer con el expresidente Hipolito Mejia, el tema de la seguridad nacional y los movimientos de protestas que se han registrado en los ultimos dias. |
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
| Location: | Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Relations With Ecuador |
| Title: | Rafael Correa reitera que las FARC no son terroristas |
| Author/Source: | El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | "Yo no creo que (que sean terroristas), son un grupo subversivo, aunque no estoy en absoluto de acuerdo con ellos", manifesto |
Friday, April 12, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Drug Seizures, Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Interceptan 500 kilos de cocaina y muere uno de los implicados |
| Author/Source: | Ramon Urbaez Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | Por tercera vez en menos de quince dias, las autoridades antinarcoticos dominicanas decomisaron un alijo superior a los 500 kilogramos de cocaina colombiana |
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Ecuador |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations |
| Title: | Rafael Correa visitara Republica Dominicana para feria del libro |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | El presidente Rafael Correa, realizara una corta visita a Republica Dominicana para participar de algunos actos de la XVI Feria Internacional del Libro que abrira el 22 de abril proximo en Santo Domingo, y que tendra al Ecuador como invitado de honor. |
Monday, April 8, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Corruption, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces the Extradition of Dominican Republic Former Drug Control Operations Chief |
| Author/Source: | Drug Enforcement Administration |
| Brief: | "Francisco Antonio Hiraldo-Guerrero was a corrupt public official who exploited his position atop the Dominican Republic's drug control office to facilitate the importation of massive quantities of cocaine into the United States." |
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Jefe de la PN dice estar opuesto al desarme de la poblacion civil |
| Author/Source: | Ramon Cruz Benzan Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | El jefe policial reacciono de esa forma, tras ser preguntado en torno a un anteproyecto que busca el desarme de la poblacion civil |
Friday, April 5, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Gobierno inicia reforma institucional de la Policia |
| Author/Source: | Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | Los miembros de la Comision ampliada para la Reforma de la Policia Nacional se reunieron ayer para iniciar la implementacion de las medidas contempladas en el Plan Integral de Seguridad Ciudadana |
Monday, April 1, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Ascenderan por desempeno y no por antigüedad en la Policia |
| Author/Source: | Juan Eduardo Thomas Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | Jose Ramon Fadul, ministro de Interior y Policia, revelo que 12,000 agentes seran integrados a la institucion en el cuatrienio del presidente Danilo Medina. |
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Vincho: FBI actuo en el pais sin tener autorizacion |
| Author/Source: | Wanda Mendez Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | El director de Ética e Integridad Gubernamental, Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), denuncio ayer que dos agentes del FBI interrogaron en un cuartel policial de La Romana a empleadas domesticas de la villa del medico de origen dominicano radicado en |
Monday, March 25, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Human Rights, Public Security |
| Title: | Jefe PN dice recomiendan la cancelacion de 50 agentes |
| Author/Source: | Ramon Cruz Benzan Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | Entre los recomendados hay agentes acusados de agredir a su pareja, violencia intrafamiliar, maltrato de ciudadano, hablar y dar proteccion a narcotraficantes, herir ciudadano sin causa justificada, entre otros |
Thursday, March 21, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Gobierno pone en marcha Plan Seguridad Ciudadana |
| Author/Source: | Adriana Peguero Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | El Gobierno dio a conocer ayer el Plan Integral de Seguridad Ciudadana, que incluye una reforma policial. |
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | El plan es bueno, lo malo es la impunidad |
| Author/Source: | Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | El Gobierno anuncio anoche un amplio plan de seguridad ciudadana que toda la sociedad esta en el deber de apoyarlo y hacerlo exitoso |
Thursday, March 14, 2013
| Location: | Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Venezuela |
| Category: | Energy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | For friends of Chavez, there's good news and bad news |
| Author/Source: | Risa Grais-Targow, Heather Berkman Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | Maduro is likely to maintain Petrocaribe, but in the medium term, domestic fiscal constraints may well force him to reduce foreign aid |
Monday, March 11, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Venezuela |
| Category: | Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Los dominicanos estamos de luto |
| Author/Source: | Vinicio A. Castillo Seman Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | Ofrecernos, en los momentos mas dificiles en que el petroleo llego a cotizarse en US$150.00 el barril, un financiamiento de 25 anos, a un 1%, con la posibilidad de pagarlo con productos agricolas de esta tierra, fue un gesto |
Friday, March 1, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Reformar la Policia Nacional |
| Author/Source: | Chiara Liguori Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | En la Republica Dominicana, la policia tiene el reto de enfrentar una criminalidad percibida como cada vez mas agresiva. Al mismo tiempo, goza de muy poca legitimidad y confianza |
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | IAAFA hosts first female Dominican Republic combat pilot |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Tejada-Quintana, a petite brunette, claims the title of the first female combat pilot for her country, the Dominican Republic. |
Monday, February 11, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Menendez Backed Donor on Port Security Plan |
| Author/Source: | Eric Lipton, William K. Rashbaum The New York Times |
| Brief: | The aide explained that if such a donation occurred, the Dominican government, perhaps under pressure from criminal elements there, might intentionally limit the use of the equipment so that drugs or other contraband could still flow through the country's |
Thursday, January 24, 2013
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations |
| Title: | FFAA no aceptaran 'cunas' para ascensos |
| Author/Source: | Juan Eduardo Thomas Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | El ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas, almirante Sigfrido Pared Perez, advirtio ayer que no aceptara listas ni tarjetas personales de politicos con recomendaciones para ascensos militares |
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Dominican Republic's political parties to pact against violent crimes |
| Author/Source: | Dominican Today |
| Brief: | Vargas said the proposal would recover the tranquility and return the confidence to Dominicans and visitors. |
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | In protest, man chains himself to U.S. Embassy in Dominican Republic |
| Author/Source: | Manuel Jimenez Reuters The Chicago Tribune |
| Brief: | By protesting outside the embassy, Familia was attempting to draw attention to his legal case and the mistake that he blames for tearing his family apart. |
Friday, November 9, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Human Rights, Public Protests, Public Security |
| Title: | Dominican Republic: Student's killing underscores urgent need for police reform |
| Author/Source: | Amnesty International |
| Brief: | According to eyewitnesses, police shot Florian while he was walking out of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) campus. Heavily armed police officers were firing live rounds towards a group of protesters who were making their way from the cam |
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Protest, Recent Violence, Victims |
| Title: | Muere estudiante durante protestas en Dominicana |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Willy Florian, de 22 anos y estudiantes de medicina, recibio dos disparos en el torax y fallecio cuando era trasladado a la Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo a un hospital; protestaban contra una reforma legislativa que incrementara los impuestos. |
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Masiva protesta contra impuestos en Republica Dominicana |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press EL Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Miembros de organizaciones civiles, sindicatos de medicos, choferes y maestros, grupos empresariales, estudiantes y partidos de oposicion marcharon a ritmo de gaga con pancartas y consignas y se apostaron afuera del Congreso bicameral. |
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Haiti |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security, Relations With Neighbors |
| Title: | Dominican official slams Human Rights body on "stateless" Haitians |
| Author/Source: | Dominican Today |
| Brief: | In a press conference, the official said he has already sent to the Foreign Ministry the request to protest the "high level of disrespect to the Dominican Republic as a member state." |
Friday, October 26, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Public Security |
| Title: | One dead, 12,581 evacuated in Dominican Republic flooding |
| Author/Source: | Dominican Today |
| Brief: | Hurricane Sandy's downpours forced the people, according to the Emergency Operations Center's (COE), latest figures, with 104 towns cut off and one person dead an another missing. |
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights |
| Title: | FFAA penaran a soldados que incurran en violencia |
| Author/Source: | Mairobi Herrera List In Diario |
| Brief: | El ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas, almirante Sigfrido Pared Perez, advirtio ayer que los miembros de las instituciones armadas que se vean involucrados en violencia de genero y otros casos similares seran castigados. |
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Human Rights, Human Trafficking |
| Title: | Dominican Republic teams with UN to fight human trafficking |
| Author/Source: | Ezra Fieser Infosur Hoy |
| Brief: | The Dominican Special Corps for Border Security (CESFRONT) will be trained to spot human trafficking and intervene to protect victims of trafficking. |
Friday, October 12, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Venezuela |
| Category: | Elections, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Venezuela ofrecera apoyo a la JCE |
| Author/Source: | Nestor Medrano List In Diario |
| Brief: | El presidente de la Junta Central Electoral (JCE), Roberto Rosario Marquez, informo que ese organismo recibira asistencia tecnica para ponderar la posibilidad de que las elecciones en el pais sean totalmente realizadas a traves del voto electronico. |
Thursday, October 11, 2012
| Location: | Colombia, Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Narcotrafficking, Organized Crime, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Travel of Assistant Secretary William R. Brownfield, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Spokesperson U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, William R. Brownfield, will travel to the Dominican Republic on October 15-16 and to Colombia on October 17-19. |
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Haiti |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Public Health |
| Title: | Dominican Republic, Haiti in 10-Year Cholera Fight |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press ABC News |
| Brief: | Officials in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are preparing for a long campaign against cholera. |
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Dominicana: detienen una banda de narcos |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press EL Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Agentes dominicanos detuvieron a 15 personas acusados de formar una banda dedicada a acondicionar aeronaves para usarlas en el trasiego de cocaina desde Sudamerica. |
Monday, October 1, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Leonel viaja a Estados Unidos |
| Author/Source: | Rafael Castro List In Diario |
| Brief: | El ex presidente Leonel Fernandez viajo ayer a Estados Unidos para ofrecer una conferencia magistral y participar en otras actividades en los Estados de Rhode Islad y Nueva York. |
Monday, September 24, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | La Policia incrementa el patrullaje en diferentes barrios de Santiago |
| Author/Source: | Ricardo Santana List In Diario |
| Brief: | En las ultimas siete semanas en Santiago han ocurrido hechos, la mayoria vinculados a la delincuencia comun, que han estremecido a los diferentes sectores. |
Sunday, September 23, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Presidente Danilo Medina se reune con Hillary Clinton |
| Author/Source: | Direccion General De Comunicacion Presidencia De La Republica Dominicana |
| Brief: | El Gobierno de Estados Unidos acogio con satisfaccion las medidas adoptadas por el presidente Danilo Medina en relacion a la etica publica y la transparencia. |
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Entregaran hoy el proyecto de reforma policial |
| Author/Source: | Viviano De Leon Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) |
| Brief: | La Comision que elabora el proyecto de Reforma de la Ley Organiza de la Policia Nacional entregara hoy el contenido del mismo al presidente Danilo Medina. |
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relation |
| Title: | FFAA y Policia le riden homenaje al Presidente |
| Author/Source: | Ramon Urbaez Listin Diario |
| Brief: | Todo el Estado Mayor General de las Fuerzas Armadas y del Consejo Superior de la Policia Nacional participaron en el homenaje a Fernandez, definida como una de las mas calidas despedidas hechas por los mandos militares a un gobernante saliente. |
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Desciende diez puntos la incidencia de la pobreza |
| Author/Source: | Adriana Peguero Listin Diario |
| Brief: | La incidencia de pobreza en la Republica Dominicana descendio de 49.4% en el 2004 a 39.9%durante el periodo 2010-2011, comparado con aproximadamente 34% bajo el anterior metodo BID-Banco Mundial y el 41.4% con el sistema CEPAL. |
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Haiti |
| Category: | Migration |
| Title: | Marchan en contra de haitianos ilegales |
| Author/Source: | Ricardo Santana Listin Diario |
| Brief: | Decenas de personas de al menos 20 barrios de la zona sur de Santiago marcharon ayer en el sector San Jose de la Mina para pedir a las autoridades migratorias y al Gobierno repatriar a los haitianos indocumentados. |
Monday, July 30, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | MEDCOM, Army South mission improves eyesight for Dominicans, builds partner nation capacity |
| Author/Source: | Lt. Col. Antwan Williams U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The purpose of this exercise is to help to build partner nation capacity, while providing humanitarian services and improving eyesight for hundreds of Dominican citizens. |
Friday, July 13, 2012
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Drones, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Napolitano's visit heralds drones over Dominican skies |
| Author/Source: | Dominican Today |
| Brief: | Napolitano arrives in the country from Brazil and at 9am Friday in the U.S. Ambassador's residence, is expected to sign the agreement for Dominican Republic to use the unmanned aircraft. |