Weekly Report - 11 September 2014 (WR-14-36)

The Dominican Republic (DR)’s President Danilo Medina is standing firm in the face of pressure from local environmental groups calling for the Loma Miranda area in the DR’s central mountainous region to be declared a national park in order to prevent it from being exploited by mining firms. Last week President Medina vetoed a law bill which had been approved by the national congress on 28 August, on the grounds that, as it stood, the bill was incompatible with the constitution and some of the DR’s obligations under international law on the protection of foreign investments.

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