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00:00The civic movement Participación Ciudadana warned this Tuesday that the cases of administrative corruption in the Dominican Republic are at risk of being eliminated in court if they are not expedited.
00:11Ana Mañón explained to us.
00:13The cases of corruption under observation are Antipulpo, Coral and Coral 5G, Medusa, Calamar and Camaleon, which have been in justice for several years and because of this they run the risk of criminal extinction,
00:29which would be serious, said Pancho Álvarez, coordinator of the Political Analysis Commission of Participación Ciudadana.
00:38But the facts that are described in those accusations that are known in the courts, I have said very seriously, that at least they deserve a sentence in court, that the judges in their right to independence establish the guilt or innocence based on the evidence.
01:00In his fourth report on the main corruption files that involve public resources, representatives of civil society warn that they could end up without sentences for weaknesses in the system.
01:16What cannot happen is that the Dominican Republic is going to have such a serious conviction that it is not going to value the evidence because the criminal action was extended because it reached the maximum time and that a judicial process must last.
01:31That would imply that all those serious offenses mentioned will not be subject to a deep trial, they will not be able to be valued in the courts and the impunity would normally be in the Dominican Republic.
01:46Therefore, Participación Ciudadana considers it necessary to follow these processes and that they must end with favorable results.
01:56During the implementation of this panel entitled High Corruption Cases, Justice and the Media Outcome, the impact and coverage of the media and social networks were also analyzed in the judicial evolution of administrative corruption cases in the Dominican Republic.
02:15The event was held at the Hotel Catalonia.
02:19For Telenoticias, Ana Mañón.
02:23The president of the National Council of Evangelical Unity, Código y Feliciano Lassen Custodio, showed his concern about the Friusa issue, indicating that the authorities have lost control and have been very forewarned with the Haitian issue in that area where they supposedly cannot access.
02:40Faced with the call for a march this Sunday, March 30, of the so-called Dominican Order, they hope that everything goes as normal and that the authorities ensure that there are no disturbances.
02:54The leaders of the march must try to ensure that everything happens in peace and in march.
02:57Now, the Dominican state must make an alert to him that he has to put the controls in place, because although the president yesterday said that the regulars should continue to be deported, it seems that they take out 10 and enter 30 or 40, because there is an overflowing irregular immigration in the Dominican Republic.
03:15Friusa is a community that is inhabited only by Haitians, where they supposedly have a prominence and practice their customs, so the evangelical pastor indicated that a lot of attention should be paid to it.
03:30Well, the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, is the speaker invited to the monthly lunch of the American Chamber of Commerce.
03:39We are going to make contact with Eliana Cuevas, who is in the Ambassador Hotel, to give us details of this lunch.
03:45Good afternoon, Eliana, go ahead.
03:47Thank you, Azize. Good afternoon to you and to our entire television audience.
03:52We are at the monthly lunch of the American Chamber of Commerce, which has today as a speaker invited to the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader.
04:02During his speech, the President of the Republic highlighted the trade relations that the Dominican Republic has with the United States,
04:13pointing out that more than 53% of last year's exports were to the United States, which generated more than $6.4 billion.
04:25Let's hear a little bit of what the Speaker is saying right now.
04:32Let's hear a little bit of what the Speaker is saying right now.
05:02We are convinced that the future we build today will be a legacy of progress for future generations.
05:33Good afternoon, Eliana. Thank you for your report from the monthly lunch of the American Chamber of Commerce, which is held here at the Ambassador Hotel.
06:00We continue with more information here on Telenoticias.
06:03We are now going to the Zibao region.
06:05In Calma, the first day of the strike in San Francisco de Macorís.
06:09Some shops are open, their doors and some fluidity in vehicle traffic.
06:13We are going to make contact with Guillermo García, who is live from the city of Jaya, to give us all the details.
06:20Good afternoon, Guillermo. Go ahead.
06:24Thank you, Azize. Good afternoon.
06:26Good afternoon. We are still here in San Francisco de Macorís, where the strike has been going on calmly for two days.
06:36Several municipal and provincial organizations from this locality carried out the strike.
06:42This morning, we spoke with the directors of the FALPO.
06:47They reiterate the unfulfilled demands for which they have called for this strike.
06:54We also spoke with some merchants who, although they support the demands, do not agree with the strike and want the dialogue to be used.
07:09Some light incidents. For example, this morning, the agents of the National Army and the police who have been patrolling the city since early in the morning
07:21were suffocating some tires that were set on fire by hoodlums in the Pueblo Nuevo neighborhood of this city of San Francisco de Macorís.
07:34Let's listen to what these people have to say about the strike.
07:40Why do so many hoodlums go to war? It's a peaceful strike. Why do so many hoodlums send the government here?
07:48This is money unnecessarily spent, because the people pay for it.
07:54We agree that the government should act and carry out the work it needs to do, but the methods must change.
08:14They must change because, first of all, when a part of the city is paralyzed, the same society is affected.
08:21What is paralyzed and stopped is the progress of development.
08:25The government's plan to militarize, to intimidate, a perverse plan, a criminal plan, has failed.
08:32And the people have defeated it with the civility that it has shown today and with the support and welcome it has given to this strike
08:39for the 48 hours that it has been called for in San Francisco de Macorís and La Guárana.
08:43This government has not responded to the needs of this municipality.
08:47You have seen how the sectors here are completely impassable.
08:54The work that this government found to carry out has not been completed.
09:00To clarify that El Falpo and other groups are the ones who are calling for this strike,
09:06not so, the collective of popular organizations that have historically been at the forefront of this type of struggle,
09:13not only here in San Francisco de Macorís, but throughout the country.
09:18The traffic has been timidly maintained and some shops have opened their doors.
09:26For example, in the municipal market, all businesses were operating on the morning of this Tuesday.
09:33That is all we have from San Francisco de Macorís.
09:36We return with you, Azize.
09:38Thank you very much, Guillermo García, for your report from San Francisco de Macorís.
09:44Well, and the Director General of Cattle, Abel Madera, called this Tuesday
09:50not to politicize the subject of the African pig fever detected in some provinces of the country.
09:57It was assured that the government has limits to compensate for the losses that this disease could generate.
10:04Paola Valls explains.
10:07The African pig fever is controlled according to the authorities,
10:11and although the cases detected have been in transfer farms,
10:15the agricultural team will meet to take more severe measures to eradicate the disease.
10:22It is also a lie what has been said in some media that we have minimized the disease.
10:28What we have said is that it is not a situation to worry about, but to take care of.
10:34Those claims that I think are unfair and that are politicizing a subject that should not be politicized.
10:42The agricultural advisor of the Executive Power, Eric Rivero,
10:45hopes that in the next few days the focus will be reduced to what he called small and dispersed.
10:51But it has the advantage that it has no harm for the consumer.
10:55So we must continue to consume Dominican pigs and continue to support our producers
11:00until we can eradicate this disease here in the country.
11:05We already have the experience, because many years ago it arrived and was eradicated.
11:09Here we will have the opportunity to do it again.
11:12The director of the cattle farm explained that the institution has a fund of 60 million pesos
11:18and about 5 million dollars of contributions from international organizations
11:22to combat the pig fever of those who have already arranged about 2 million pesos to compensate the losses.
11:29Create the conditions so that this virus does not affect the largest producers
11:37and that we also preserve the small ones, giving them economic support and the state's solidarity.
11:42Madera explained that the disease is cyclical and that there is usually an increase in cases in February
11:48because the movements of December pigs are reflected.
11:51At the same time, he called on producers to notify when their pigs are affected.
11:56For Telenoticias, Paola Baez.
12:00We continue with more information here on Telenoticias.
12:03The National Police lamented the death of the head of that institution, José Alberto Arias de Jesús,
12:09who lost his life during a police intervention in the sector of the Huaricanos in the municipality of Santo Domingo Norte.
12:16He was hit by a bullet wound when, accompanied by a police team,
12:22he went to a place in the sector Los Motores, in the Huaricanos, in Santo Domingo Norte,
12:30where, according to reports, a clandestine party was held and from where a strong sonic contamination was emitted.
12:40Pesqueira reported that 28-year-old Franklin Montero Escolástico,
12:45pointed out as the alleged responsible for the incident,
12:48voluntarily surrendered along with the firearm that had been used in the Montero Escolástico attack.
12:54He will be made available to justice via the Public Prosecutor's Office to respond to this case.
13:02A man who was being pointed out for being the alleged responsible for the death of his ex-wife at dawn last Sunday
13:11was found dead, in an incident that took place in the sector La Chíbara de Alto Mayor.
13:15As Giovanni Javier, the deceased Miguel Mercedes, who allegedly killed the woman by running over her, tells us.
13:24Miguel Mercedes, who was wanted by the authorities for the death of his ex-partner,
13:29Noemí Ester Marte Varela, decided to put an end to his own life by hanging himself from a tree.
13:36Well, we had information that there was a person with the characteristics of the person we were tracking,
13:43the product of the homicide committed against the young woman on Sunday morning,
13:50and we have personalized the place and it is certainly the person who has all the characteristics of having committed suicide.
13:58According to information, after committing the act,
14:01Mercedes took refuge in a property owned by her parents,
14:05in the community of Las Dos Bocas, in the province of El Ceibo,
14:08where hours later he was found dead.
14:12I am very saddened by the fact that something like this had never happened here in the past 60 years.
14:18We have not seen any type of aggression like this here.
14:21We are very saddened by this fact, a very unfortunate fact.
14:27When I was little, I saw him here, but after he became a man, I had not seen that young man again.
14:36The fact that it has dismayed the entire community leaves two families and a girl in orphanage.
14:43Renato Mayor for Telenoticias, Giovanni Javier.
14:47A wide rejection and indignation has caused a video in which an agent of the National Police
14:54gives him electric shocks with a gun to a member of the Dominican Red Cross
14:59at the Hospital José María Cabral Ibañez de Santiago.
15:02The entity, through a statement, described as unacceptable that volunteers are the subject of aggression and abuse,
15:07so it demanded that this incident be clarified so that measures are taken to prevent it from happening again.
15:14Our volunteers dedicate time and effort to serve humanity.
15:18Humanitarian work must be protected and valued, says the statement.
15:24We thank collaborator Oscar Junior Tavares for sharing this information for Telenoticias.
15:33And the Director of Public Defense, Rodolfo Valentín,
15:36indicated that in the Dominican prisons there are around 2,000 Haitian national freedom fighters
15:42who face justice in the country for various crimes,
15:46mostly related to intrafamilial violence and rapes.
15:51He also pointed out that support is given regardless of their legal status.
15:58We have an approximate number of 1,800 to 1,900 Haitian citizens per year,
16:06where we assist them.
16:08And the biggest crime is about violence, intrafamilial violence and beatings and wounds.
16:16It is the largest number of criminal types that we have of the actions committed by these citizens,
16:22followed by Venezuelans, Colombians, Americans,
16:26and in this way we really assist foreigners.
16:31Valentín advocated for improvements to the country's prison system,
16:35so he exhorted the authorities not to limit themselves to the construction of infrastructures,
16:40but to train personnel to face the lack of control within those prison enclosures
16:45that still exist.