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...The EU also sanctioned Mr Parra’s vice-presidents Franklyn Duarte and José Gregorio Noriega....
...Mr Duarte faces a string of other corruption charges....
...But the manner of Mr Duarte’s detention “gives the impression of some kind of negotiation” that will hamper that task, said Juan Pardinas, head of IMCO, a think-tank....
...“At the very least, they don’t seem to understand the same feeling of urgency that ordinary people do,” said Juan Pardinas, head of IMCO, a think-tank....
...The Dominican Republic honoured de la Renta with the order al Merito de Juan Pablo Duarte and the order of Cristobol Colon....
...Mr Duarte cannot stand for a second term and the Colorado party is expected to define its candidate after a primary in December....
...The government of President Nicanor Duarte Frutos said no state funeral was planned....
...Juan Carlos Duarte, the town’s chief attorney, says his officials have confiscated merchandise worth about $17m (€14m, £9m) so far this year. “Things have really turned around,” he says....
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