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Weekly Report - 06 March 2014 (WR-14-09)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Medina neglects thorny issues in annual address

President Danilo Medina presented his annual state-of-the-nation address to congress on 27 February, marking the 170th anniversary of the Dominican Republic’s independence. Medina, basking in unprecedented popularity for a Dominican head of state after 18 months in the job (80%), emphasised his government’s economic achievements, but above all its focus on redistributing wealth through the provision of free health and education benefits, adding that it remained on course to eradicate illiteracy by the end of the year. Medina’s dismissively short mention of Haiti (three sentences in a two-hour speech), given widespread criticism of the legal ruling stripping thousands of Dominicans of Haitian origin of their nationality retroactively, earned a rebuke from the Haitian foreign ministry, and he made no mention at all of the controversial Loma Miranda mining project.

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