Latinnews Daily - 19 November 2003
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Mejía defies strike, vows to stand again
President Hipólito Mejía has dismissed the division within the ruling Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) over his re-election bid as 'family differences'. He also sent out a strong message to those who organised a massive general strike last week that he had every intention of standing for re-election in next May's presidential elections because, as he put it, 'I have prepared the ground, I have sown it and I want to be there for the harvest'.
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