{"id":496982,"date":"2026-01-06T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/president-abinader-makes-new-appointments-in-industry-and-commerce\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:38:27","slug":"president-abinader-makes-new-appointments-in-industry-and-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/president-abinader-makes-new-appointments-in-industry-and-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"President Abinader makes new appointments in Industry and Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0The President of the Republic\u00a0ordered a new\u00a0<strong>reconfiguration of the government train<\/strong>\u00a0through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/decretos\/3-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Decree No. 3-26<\/strong><\/a>, with which<strong>\u00a0Eduardo \u201cYayo\u201d Sanz Lovat\u00f3n<\/strong>\u00a0was appointed as Minister of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes;\u00a0<strong>Nelson Arroyo<\/strong>\u00a0as Director General of Customs; and<strong>\u00a0V\u00edctor \u201cIto\u201d Bison\u00f3<\/strong>\u00a0as Minister of Housing and Buildings. The appointments seek to strengthen\u00a0<strong>strategic areas<\/strong>\u00a0linked to\u00a0<strong>economic growth, foreign trade and housing policy.<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Eduardo \u201cYayo\u201d Sanz Lovat\u00f3n, new Minister of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes,<\/strong> since August 2020 had served as Director General of Customs. In the political sphere, he is the founder of the PRM and its current National Secretary of Finance, as well as a member of the Executive Directorate, and was political director of Luis Abinader&#8217;s presidential campaign in 2020. He is a lawyer, a graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), with a master&#8217;s degree in International Law from the Center for Strategic Studies in Paris. He was a university professor at PUCMM, APEC and Unibe between 2003 and 2016, and managing partner of the firm Staff Legal, SRL, from 2004 to 2020.&nbsp;\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can also read<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/abinader-design-victor-ito-bisono\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abinader appoints V\u00edctor \u201cIto\u201d Bison\u00f3 as Minister of Housing and Buildings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Nelson Arroyo<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>who becomes the general director of Customs<\/strong>, served during the period 2020\u20132024 as president of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel), a position he held until his recent replacement. He was born in the municipality of Moca, Espaillat province. He holds a doctorate in Law from the Universidad Central del Este and is the founder of the firm Arroyo &amp; Asociados. His political career includes his election as a councilman of San Pedro de Macor\u00eds in 1998, as a civil governor in the year 2000 and as a deputy to the National Congress between 2006 and 2016, where he chaired the Accounts Chamber commission and was a member of the Justice Commission. In addition, he has been a spokesperson for both the PRD and PRM caucuses.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>V\u00edctor \u201cIto\u201d Bison\u00f3, now Minister of Housing and Buildings, <\/strong>is a public servant with more than 30 years of institutional experience. He was Minister of Industry, Commerce and SMEs from August 2020 and four times deputy of the National District between 2002 and 2020. He has promoted important legal frameworks in terms of competitiveness, renewable energies, commercial companies and institutionality, and has been part of the National Council of the Magistracy. His public management has been characterized by a technical, pragmatic and results-oriented approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-\u00a0The President of the Republic\u00a0ordered a new\u00a0reconfiguration of the government train\u00a0through\u00a0Decree No. 3-26, with which\u00a0Eduardo \u201cYayo\u201d Sanz Lovat\u00f3n\u00a0was appointed as Minister of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes;\u00a0Nelson Arroyo\u00a0as Director General of Customs; and\u00a0V\u00edctor \u201cIto\u201d Bison\u00f3\u00a0as Minister of Housing and Buildings. The appointments seek to strengthen\u00a0strategic areas\u00a0linked to\u00a0economic growth, foreign trade and housing policy. 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