DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ONE MAN IS SHOT AS DEMONSTRATORS CLASH WITH POLICE AFTER UNION BACKED ANTI-GOVERNMENT STRIKE IN SANTA DOMINGO

Record ID: 376956

  • Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ONE MAN IS SHOT AS DEMONSTRATORS CLASH WITH POLICE AFTER UNION BACKED ANTI-GOVERNMENT STRIKE IN SANTA DOMINGO
  • Date: 18th May 1999
  • Summary: SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (MAY 18, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS ARMED NATIONAL POLICE OFFICERS RUNNING AFTER PROTESTERS (3 SHOTS) 0.38 2. LV'S TYRES SET ON FIRE AS BARRICADES ON THE CAPITAL STREETS (2 SHOTS) 0.52 3. LV'S POLICE RUNNING AND FIRING AT PROTESTERS (2 SHOTS) 1.20 4. VARIOUS PROTESTERS (3 SHOTS) 1.35
  • Embargoed: 2nd June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: SANTO DOMINGO AND SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  • Country: Dominican Republic
  • Reuters ID: LVAEN8I0KX6PKQUX9W82M6FOBUAZ
  • Story Text: One man was shot and another wounded in a bomb blast
    in Santo Domingo as an anti-government strike called by
    left-wing unions closed most small businesses, schools and
    public transport in the Dominican Republic.

    Dominican Republic police and soldiers armed with
    automatic weapons patrolled the country Tuesday (May 18) to
    maintain calm and keep supermarkets, factories, large banks
    and major roads open on the first day of a planned two-day
    strike.

    The protest, called by the Collective of Popular
    Organisations and the Coordinating Committee of Popular
    Organisations, was the largest of several dealing with the
    same issues through the country in recent weeks.

    It was called to demand that President Leonel Fernandez
    improve services, raise salaries, stop the privatisation of
    public businesses and cut food and fuel prices.

    A young man was shot and wounded in the northeastern city
    of San Francisco de Macoris and another was wounded when a
    homemade bomb exploded in Azua, in the southern Dominican
    Republic, according to radio reports.

    In San Pedro de Macoris, 30 km from Santo Domingo, police
    said bands of youths threw stones at cars, and burnt tires on
    the streets to block traffic.

    Thousands of people had trouble getting to work on Tuesday
    (May 18) morning because far fewer public buses were operating
    than usual.In some areas, including neighbourhoods on the
    edge of Santo Domingo and in Santiago, the northern city
    second in size to the capital, virtually everything appeared
    to be closed.

    Minister of the Interior and Police Norge Botello
    denounced the strike as a political action backed by the
    leftist opposition Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD).


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