Until recently President Danilo Medina was the most popular head of state in Latin America and the Caribbean who won re-election in a landslide in May 2016. But his popularity is being steadily eroded by the region-wide corruption scandal involving the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht from which Dominican officials did particularly well in terms of bribes to obtain public works contracts. This week Dominican intellectuals and activists went as far as to urge Medina to resign over the Odebrecht debacle to make way for a new, more inclusive, democratic system.End of preview - This article contains approximately 601 words.
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