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Five persons have been arrested in connection to the murder of Colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez while the police found the vehicle used by the criminals who shot him 13 times.

According to the police report, the vehicle (license plate OE 00234) did not belong to the National Army but to Janes Villa, a cover company connected to the criminal network headed by Puerto Rican fugitive Jose David Figueroa Agosto.

The report, which concluded the investigations are in an advanced phase, was the result of a four hour meeting yestarday among Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez, National Police chief Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin, Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) chief Rolando Rosado, and National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso.

Gonzalez, 40, received 13 bullet wounds –four of them to the head– last 24 December while heading to his residence in Torre Serena, on Anacaona Avenue #67, a property that belonged to him and his wife Madelin Bernard. The District Attorney and the DNCD were investigating him due to alleged links to Figueroa Agosto.

National Police chief Guzman Fermin highlighted the fact that Gonzalez’s death was something to be expected, for “similar events tend to occur in countries that have declared war on drug trafficking and organized crime.”

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Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: josean, 28 Dec 2009 9:33 AM
From: United States
Caption:

So who is going to arrest the president?

Not me! Not me! Not me! Not me! Not me! Not me!

How did they do it with Noriega?
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Gringo_1, 28 Dec 2009 9:43 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
“National Police chief Guzman Fermin highlighted the fact that Gonzalez’s death was something to be expected, for “similar events tend to occur in countries that have declared war on drug trafficking and organized crime.”

You have to be kidding me!!! To be expected because we are involved in a war on drugs and organized crime. Everyone thinks he was murdered because he was deeply involved in organized crime and drug trafficking.

We have entered the “Spin Zone”
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Gringo_1, 28 Dec 2009 9:44 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
Oh yea, like who did they arrest? More police officers??? Inquiring minds want to know!!!
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: gmiller261, 28 Dec 2009 9:52 AM
From: United States
What was with the other article on Saturday? “Colonel’s murder is a challenge for Dominican police”

Must have been police.

The “expected” comment was insane. If they expected it, they may have saved this guys life and gotten more information. But, they chose to let him get killed.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Gringo_1, 28 Dec 2009 10:31 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
They let him get killed because dead men don’t talk. His list of names probably went high up in the echelons of government.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Juango, 28 Dec 2009 10:37 AM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
Gringo, you are right on the money ! The PN Chief Guzman Fermin is LF’s “YES” man. He does whatever the boss wants.I wouldnt be surprised to see a couple other Cols or Gens go down in the same fashion as Gonzales did on Christmas eve. Perhaps his widow will need protection now (as she may know whos on that list). BTW, when is Dia de los Reyes?
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Grosero, 28 Dec 2009 10:52 AM
From: United States
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

THIS ARTICAL SHOULD READ…
The DNCD apprehended FIVE STOOGES …

The Cocaine Smuggler’s reassured everyone that the FIVE STOOGES will be murdered almost immediately

Bang Bang

Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: WalterPolo, 28 Dec 2009 10:56 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Licence plate OE 00234: we all know OE means oficial ejercito, so peleeeeeeeeeeezzzz,stop taking us for a bunch of idiots.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Gringo_1, 28 Dec 2009 11:19 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
I didn’t know that. LOL.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Lopez31, 28 Dec 2009 11:25 AM
From: United States
What a mess! Well, looks like this colonel was involved in the drug trafficking business as well. So, lets look at the bright side! One less cock roach in this world. Happy new year everyone. Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Adrian29630, 28 Dec 2009 12:09 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
This does raise a lot of unanswered questions!

If it was expected he could be killed why wasn’t he given protection?
Who are these 5 people arrested?
How was the car found and traced back to the killers and how could an offical car be registered to a private company?
How were the 5 people traced
Was the four hour meeting just to decide which and how many “stooges” should be implicated and what have they been offered to “take the rap” leaving the real killers or their bosses free and clear?
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: DixieNormus, 28 Dec 2009 1:00 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Spin Zone?? You got that right.

The apartment complex where he lived he could not have been able to afford it on 4 TIMES his salary. Got any idea what an apartment there goes for???

My opinion is he was up to his neck in the trade.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: DoggPound, 28 Dec 2009 1:25 PM
From: United States
Five chopos, none involved, all will be dead before they even meet a lawyer
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: generoso, 28 Dec 2009 2:09 PM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Names, names, names, we are not children here! Who’s reputation is being protected? I smell a five day old rotten fish here…………..
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: jcl_67, 28 Dec 2009 2:54 PM
From: Dominican Republic
they better get their story straight cause it don’t meke sense, no hitman or hit crew would be that stupid and leave all those traces behind.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: curlando, 28 Dec 2009 3:01 PM
From: United States
Dead man tell no tales.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Gringo_1, 28 Dec 2009 3:01 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
LOL — Left a car behind? No way…. This was obviously a set-up. Those poor saps probably didn’t have much or anything to do with it. This hit was probably ordered from someone way near the top IMHO.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: msjersey, 28 Dec 2009 3:34 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
joseano, tu si que habla de la que pica el pollo!
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: josean, 28 Dec 2009 5:11 PM
From: United States
Muerdete un ojo!
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: riosm, 28 Dec 2009 6:10 PM
From: United States
what next ?
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: deano69, 28 Dec 2009 8:14 PM
From: Canada
Its like Disney Land in the Caribean… I would like to know who was arrested..names, status, connections.. {That what papers do they inform..not make you guess)and the name of the government publicist who sent out the “this is to be expected because we declared a war on drugs” B-L- S-i_. If the chief acutaly said that..god help the DR

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Economists and businessmen expect the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will dinamize the Dominican economy during next year´s fist half, with a lot of money circulating, a broadening tax base and several public expenditures.

Members from the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santiago expect that 2010 will see a change in the economic model that will allow to successfully overcome great financial challenges.

On the other hand, the National Commercial Businesses Organization (ONEC) chief Pedro Perez said the best thing for the State is to look at 2010 from an economic perspective as a whole and not as two halves, so it can guarantee stability and avoid postponing the solution of the country’s deep problems such as corruption and deficits accumulated over decades in health and education.

D’Arcy Wright, the Canadian man reported missing earlier this month, has been found alive and well in Boca Chica, near the Dominican capital, about four hours from his home in the country.

He had left his office in Sosua, went to the beach and a bar, and then he vanished. Family, friends, police and government officials in Canada had been scouring the streets and the Internet looking for any trace of him.

According to Wright’s sister, her brother had been kidnapped at gunpoint from his home in the Dominican Republic by two men in what he believes was a case of mistaken identity. She told CHCH-TV he was heavily drugged when he was released four days ago, and he remains lethargic.

Wright is a property manager who recently moved to Sosua, in the Puerto Plata area.

An indictment was filed at Petah Tikva District Court in Tel Aviv, Israel, against five suspects on charges of illegal gambling, tax offenses and fraud, as well as suspicion that, between 2000 and 2002, they ran a network of almost 100 gambling computer programs situated in Internet cafes, kiosks and lottery stations across the middle east country.

According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.com, the indictment states that customers who lost money at the betting venues would pay on site with cash or check. The bets would be registered in the Dominican Republic, with daily reports of financial transactions produced in Cyprus and distributed in Israel.

The suspects have been named as Meir Abergil, Yoram Zarfati, Yoel Schneider and brothers Reuven and Ezra Gavrieli. Charges were also filed against the companies owned by the suspects.

The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office said the gaming venues were effectively being used as casinos, and the indictment indicates that the gambling operations brought in revenues of tens of millions of shekels. The “Net Casino” program distributed to gaming venues was developed by the firm “Bet and Chat,” owned jointly by two of the suspects, the paper reported..

The social networking phenomenon is taking over the world country by country and the Dominican Republic is no an exception, with Facebook and Hi5 in its top 10 of most visited websites.

According to Vincenzo Cosenza, the man behind Vincos Blog, focusing on the topics of social networking, social media and photography, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in 100 out of 127 countries, reaching over 350 million users across the planet.

Cosenza recently published an interactive World Map of Social Networks that uses analyzed data from Google Trends for Websites to visually depict the most popular social networks by country.

The map was first published in June 2009, when Facebook had more than 200 million users and was the most popular network in most places in Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States. The updated map shows Facebook’s continuing trend of global domination.

Non-English speaking parts of the world have been “colonized” by the Facebook takeover, and rival social networks such as Orkut (India), Hi5 (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua), Maktoob (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen), Cyworld (South Korea), Lide (Czech Republic) and Skyrock (Guadeloupe and Martinique) have been almost all but replaced by Facebook.

Some regions that have not been taken over include Russia and Kazakhstan (where social network V Kontakte dominates), China (where social network QQ is the market leader), Mongolia, Thailand, Peru, Romania and Portugal (where Hi5 is the dominant social network), and in Brazil and Estonia (where Orkut is the leading social network).

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Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: DoggPound, 27 Dec 2009 9:39 AM
From: United States
All the info/photos/data posted is collected an merged by the thieves at GOOGLE who are building a database of the people in the world. These sites also provide a theater for identity thieves, hackers and virus vendors.

Do a search of those involved with Facebook….note the U.S. agencies they represent.

PRIVACY is only a word anymore……
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: CarlosFranco, 27 Dec 2009 2:05 PM
From: United States, Brooklyn

The Global Village Concept at work… One of the few positve that exist!

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President Leonel Fernandez Reyna celebrated his 56th birthday yesterday. He was born in Santo Domingo on 26 December 1953, son of the late Jose Antonio Fernandez and Yolanda Reyna Romero.

Fernandez was first elected president of the Dominican Republic in 1996, winning in the second round, in an alliance with the PRSC party, beating the late PRD leader Jose Francisco Peña Gomez. At the time he was one of the youngest leaders in the Americas.

His party, the PLD went on to lose the 2000 elections, and Fernandez took on the party leadership following the death of his guide and mentor, Professor Juan Bosch. Leonel Fernandez returned to power after a conclusive election victory in 2004. He was re-elected with 53% of the votes in the 2008 elections.