It is shameful for the Government and President Abinader that Guatemala requires visas from Dominicans, warns Charles Mariotti, Sec. Gen. of the PLD
The general secretary of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), charles mariotticonsidered today as shameful for Dominican Republic that since Guatemala It is reported that a visa is required for Dominicans to travel to the Central American country.
“That decision by the Guatemalan government should shame the face of the Dominican government and the President of the Republic,” said Mariotti in San José de Ocoa where last weekend he developed the Itinerant General Secretary in his three municipalities.
He also considered it a shame for the country that Colombia threatens to demand visas again so that Dominican citizens can travel to that country.
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“It is that now, in the PRM Government, desolation, indolence, indifference, hunger are pushing people to risk their lives in search of improvement and stability,” Mariotti said, noting that in addition to the yola trips to Puerto Rico now despair leads people to risk their lives giving around the Darien (Panamanian jungle used as an irregular crossing for immigrants to reach the United States).
Press reports have been responsible for explaining the risks to life for those who are exposed to the drug cartels that dominate that geographical area.
“And this is how they intend to tell the Dominican people that the President of the Republic wins in the first round in the 2024 elections and that he has 55 percent approval. It’s a lie,” said the PLD secretary general after reiterating that Guatemala’s announcement to require a visa for Dominicans to reach its territory.
Last weekend the meetings were held under the scheme of the Itinerant General Secretary in Rancho Arriba, on Saturday and in Sabana Larga and the main municipality, San José de Ocoa, on Sunday.
“The meetings of the Itinerant General Secretary are not an invention, it is the response to a need for the exercise of politics in current times” he pointed out Mariotti at the beginning of his intervention that occurred after listening to the local leadership with ideas and recommendations for the operation of the PLD in the province.
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When addressing the issue of the visa that Guatemala is demanding, Charles Mariotti recalled that during the administration of President Danilo Medina, yola trips to Puerto Rico and illegal crossings decreased significantly, due to the effects of the economic policy implemented for the benefit of the population
“That is why every day the peledeista management in the Government is longed for, when comparisons are made of the current Government, where despair predominates, with what was done in the management of Danilo Medina” expressed the senior leader of the PLD.
