{"id":487482,"date":"2025-10-20T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/citizen-participation-calls-to-avoid-drug-trafficking-in-dominican-politics-and-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:25:19","slug":"citizen-participation-calls-to-avoid-drug-trafficking-in-dominican-politics-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/citizen-participation-calls-to-avoid-drug-trafficking-in-dominican-politics-and-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Participation calls to avoid drug trafficking in Dominican politics and economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Santo Domingo.- <\/strong>The civic movement Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana (PC),<\/strong> Dominican chapter of Transparency International (TI),<\/strong> called this Monday to prevent people and resources from drug trafficking from entering the local economy and political system.<\/p>\n\n\nThis NGO’s call comes after information linking drug trafficking and money laundering “to figures in high spheres of the business world and with close ties to political power,”<\/strong> especially with the ruling party.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> PLD asks PRM to break ties with narco-politics and clarify drug trafficking financing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThrough a statement, the Dominican chapter of TI considered it “urgent that the parties, groupings and political movements strengthen the controls in their affiliation and reception mechanisms of private, direct and indirect financing, to avoid the affectation of the Dominican party system”.\n\nReferring to the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), in power since 2020, it was pointed out that although it has issued an official statement disassociating itself from illicit activities, “it has a share of responsibility in allowing access to its ranks and\/or the direct and indirect financing of its political-electoral activities, for which it must take drastic measures to avoid situations as scandalous as the one it is suffering today.”\n\nThe PRM underlined last Thursday “its firm, categorical and unwavering position against any manifestation linked to drug trafficking”, after several cases of leaders of that organization related to drug trafficking.\n\nThe note was published two days after the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) confirmed that it is collaborating with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, in English) in an investigation against the businessman Fabio Augusto Jorge-Puras, who until May 23rd served as honorary advisor for the promotion and development of free trade zones in the Dominican Republic.\n\nJorge-Puras is also treasurer of the professional baseball team \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, which on Wednesday reported that he took a leave of absence from his position “as a result of the content disclosed”.<\/strong>\n\nThe case of Jorge-Puras is added to that of former PRM deputy Rosa Amalia Pilarte, who entered a prison in September of this year after being sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering of resources from drug trafficking in May 2024, when she was still serving as a congresswoman.\n\nIn April 2024, the Southern District Court of Florida sentenced former deputy Miguel Guti\u00e9rrez to 16 years in prison for drug trafficking. He was arrested in Miami in May 2021, just one year after being sworn in as a congressman for the PRM.\n\nAnd in May of this year, the mayor Edickson Herrera Silvestre, also of the PRM, surrendered to the United States authorities after being accused in a Florida court of belonging to an international cocaine trafficking network.\n\nIn many cases, according to PC, “the suspicious activities on the part of those investigated or convicted today, were part of the vox populi,<\/em>\u00a0or public rumor, in the communities and circles in which they operated, which should have been known to their local leaders”.<\/strong>\n\nThe cases, moreover, “have generated justified concerns” in Dominican society about the effectiveness of the State’s control mechanisms.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.- The civic movement Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana (PC), Dominican chapter of Transparency International (TI), called this Monday to prevent people and resources from drug trafficking from entering the local economy and political system. This NGO’s call comes after information linking drug trafficking and money laundering “to figures in high spheres of the business world and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":487483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40585,41877],"class_list":["post-487482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-citizen-participation","tag-drug-trafficker"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22OC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Participacion-Ciudadana-777x437-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Participacion-Ciudadana-777x437-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}