Santo Domingo. – The Secretariat of the Communist Party of Labor (PCT) strongly condemned sentence no. 0030-1643-2025, issued on November 20 by the Superior Administrative Court, considering that it constitutes a new and serious attack against the national heritage, try to strip to the Dominican State of more than 28 million square meters located within the Jaragua National Park.
The political organization described the decision as a “country robbery”, pointing out that it can only be explained by the persistence of a legal framework that favors impunity, the action of “white collar” interests and the existence of judicial practices contrary to the public interest. In the opinion of the PCT, this is a new scandal in which justice is instrumentalized to favor business and political sectors to the detriment of a strategic asset for national development and environmental protection.
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From a legal point of view, the pct He maintained that the ruling should give rise to legal actions against the judges who upheld it and against the beneficiaries, remembering that the limits of a national park cannot be modified without a law approved by two-thirds of the congressional membership, as they are protected by an organic law, in accordance with article 112 of the Constitution of the Dominican Republic.
The organization warned that the conflict transcends the strictly legal and acquires a highly serious political character, since it could open the door to the review of historical confiscations of assets linked to the Trujillista dictatorship, favoring attempts to rehabilitate Trujillismo and ultra-conservative currents that seek to rewrite national history.
Likewise, the PCT warned that, if this decision were successful, the entire National System of Protected Areas would be placed at risk, due to the repeated plans and pressures that, at different times, have attempted to dismantle it to benefit private interests.
Finally, the Communist Party of Labor called for the mobilization of citizens, academic and research centers, environmental movements and responsible public opinion, in order to defeat the ruling and defend the natural heritage and environmental sovereignty of the Dominican Republic.
