The article examines corruption in the Dominican Republic (DR) as an obstacle to the U.S. war on drugs in the region. Topics discussed include the history of military rule in DR from the ouster of demo...
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In the early 2010s, the Dominican Republic was struggling with bribery allegations and a weak and unwilling-to-prosecute judicial system. Just last year, 20 former officials were arrested in the largest anti-corruption probe in the country’s history, which uncovered widespread embezzlement in gover...
the most significant example of which is still the Brasilia Declaration, signed in February 2017 by the Public Prosecutors of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela – as well as Portugal, adding a European element to the effort...
Among the others who have come under scrutiny is Francis Lorenzo, the Dominican Republic’s deputy ambassador to the U.N., who allegedly accepted and paid bribes as a part of a scheme to influence decisions related to the development of a multi-billion dollar U.N. conference center in ...
behalf—in Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Iraq, Latvia, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Serbia, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, and Uzbekistan, among others. The designations include familiar names in the anticorruption ...
A scandal erupted days before the vote, when he was accused of “inappropriate sexual activities with young prostitutes” on a 2010 trip to the Dominican Republic. Conservative news site the Daily Caller broke the story after GOP political operatives set up several Skype interviews with several ...
his political influence to pressure government officials to resolve a Medicare billing dispute in favor of a friend — Dr. Salomon Melgen — securing visas for the doctor's girlfriends and helping protect a contract the doctor had to provide port-screening equipment to the Dominican Republic. ...
accomplish when corruption gets in the way. Subsequently, many cases can be cited where vast resource-endowed nations, such as Paraguay, have not been able to accomplish economic development due to high corruption, such as Nigeria, Venezuela, Libya, the DRC, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and ...
EU—did impose sanctions against Niger in response to the coup, but these sanctions were insufficient to get the coup leaders to step down. In fact, these sanctions were so ineffective that they causedcoup-hit Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to withdraw from the bloc, citing “illegal, ...