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Weekly Report - 16 March 2017 (WR-17-10)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Protesters seek modern independence

President Danilo Medina commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the Dominican Republic’s pre-eminent independence heroes, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, on 9 March. Medina extolled Rosario Sánchez’s “bravery and values”, fighting for a free, sovereign and independent nation. Four days later, the social organisation Marcha Verde launched a nationwide march to end what it described as the present reign of impunity and corruption in the country, choosing as the starting point Capotillo, in the north-western province of Dajabón, where Sánchez had crossed the border from Haiti in 1861 at the head of a force seeking to end the reign of Spain, only to be captured and executed.

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