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SANTO DOMINGO.- Variouis public events today will mark another anniversary of the first Dominican Constitution, proclaimed in San Cristóbal in 1844, 165 years ago.
Patriotic Events Commission president Juan Daniel Balcácer and San Cristóbal authorities will head the activities in that municipality, slated to start at 6 a.m., when the city’s band will march through several streets.
The hoisting of the flag and singing of the anthem will take place in the provincial government building at 8 a.m., and a mass at 8:30 a.m.
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Political parties and democracy
In today's Diario Libre, editor Adriano Miguel Tejada writes that Dominican political parties have become estranged from democratic ways. "They are, in themselves, instruments of manipulation and political mobilization of the elite, feeding on the entities that control them, and for that reason and because they have no fundamental ideological reasons among them, they have become sources of personal enrichment for their leaders at different levels and in obstacles for the development of public policies that can make a difference for the large majority," he writes.
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Tejada puts into words what many Dominicans have been thinking: "Will democracy and national prosperity have to do without the political parties in their present state and seek ways that are more participative and attract people less tainted by corruption, to achieve the regeneration the country needs?"
One can make that argument for ALL constitutions...Madison, the main architect of the American Constitution, had hoped that said document would be an effective bulwark that would "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority".
San Cristobal esta llena de Haitianos
San Cristobal was founded and settled by Haitianos! Look it up...
the rest Well try your best,I;m DOMINICAN and even if my country is far from perfect
I love my country and love my peoples and if i have some love left then i love the rest of the world and peoples.
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Dominicano y Orgulloso even if we are not perfect same as everybody else.
He was born in San Cristóbal to José Trujillo Valdez, a small retailer possibly of Canarian origin, and Altagracia Julia Molina Chevalier, later known as Mamá Julia, whose mother was half-Haitian. Trujillo later suppressed knowledge of his mother's ancestry due to his ordered massacre of Haitians. He was related to the Abreus family. He was the third of eleven children.