Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader congratulated this Monday the president-elect of Chile, José Antonio Kast, winner of the second round of elections in that country. Kast, a 59-year-old far-rightist, obtained 48.1% of the votes in yesterday's election, to defeat the candidate of the Communist Party of Chile, Jeannette Jara, who won 41.83% of the votes. […]
Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader signed decree 664-25 authorizing the extradition to Puerto Rico of Esteffani (Ethian) José Vásquez Amarante, who faces charges before the United States justice system for drug trafficking and money laundering. Vásquez Amarante, ex-partner of congresswoman Jacqueline Fernández Brito, representative of La Romana for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), is accused […]
Santo Domingo.– Citizens consulted this Monday expressed their support for the court's decision to impose 18 months of preventive detention on several of those accused in the Senasa case, considering that the measure responds to the seriousness of the accusations of alleged administrative irregularities in the past management of the National Health Insurance. During a […]
Santo Domingo. – The judges of the Second Chamber of the Superior Administrative Tribunal (TSA) annulled a ruling that ordered the Dominican State to pay a fair price to several individuals for land allegedly expropriated within the Cotubanamá National Park, in the municipality of San Rafael del Yuma. The decision was adopted by magistrates Antonio […]
Santo Domingo.– The Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, highlighted this Monday a reduction in reports of robberies in the Dominican Republic, during the meeting to monitor citizen security, as a result of the strengthening of police operations and preventive actions implemented by the Government. Raful reported that in December, 1,410 complaints were registered, […]
Sports Writing (EFE).— The month of May 2025 was marked as one of the most intense and memorable on the sports calendar in America, with historic comebacks, absolute consecrations and world-class protagonists such as Carlo Ancelotti, Álex Palou, Shohei Ohtani, Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez, as well as the teams Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers. You […]
PHILADELPHIA.- The Philadelphia Phillies reached an agreement for one season and $10 million with free agent outfielder Adolis García, as confirmed by a source to MLB.com. The club has not yet made the official announcement of the deal, which was initially reported by journalist Francys Romero. You may be interested inr: Soto returns to wear […]
Santo Domingo.- The Giants of Cibao outfielder, Johan Rojas, spoke after last night's game and reacted to the boos he received from the Tigres del Licey fans, assuring that he is not affected and that, on the contrary, he takes it as an additional motivation on the field. “Well, I never… I haven't been the […]
Madrid (EFE).- Manchester City took the victory from the Bernabéu, in the sixth matchday of the Champions League group stage, after coming back from the initial goal by Brazilian Rodrygo Goes in the 28th minute thanks to goals by English Nico O’Rilley in the 35th and Norwegian Erling Haaland in the 43rd, from a penalty. […]
Santo Domingo.– The outfielder for the Gigantes del Cibao, Johan Rojas, was received this Wednesday with strong boos from the blue fans at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, in the first match of the francomacorisano team against the Tigres del Licey after his controversial statements of last December 3. Licey fans reacted with loud whistles […]
New York .- The technology OpenAI has denied being responsible for the suicide of a 16-year-old who took his own life after interacting with ChatGPT for months, and has attributed his case to an "improper use" of the tool. "The injuries and damages alleged by the plaintiffs were caused or contributed (…) by the misuse, […]
Miami (USA).- NASA launched three missions into space this Wednesday that seek to map the heliosphere, the layer that surrounds and protects the solar system, to critically monitor space weather and to study how the Earth's upper atmosphere responds to the solar wind. The three missions took off from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
Nvidia is no longer just a graphics card manufacturer. The company founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, which was born with the vision of bringing 3D graphics to video games, has become the most valuable company on the planet, surpassing Apple and Microsoft with a capitalization of around $4.3 trillion. […]
New York.- Apple equips its AirPods with live translation in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German thanks to its new operating system, iOS 26, which launches this Monday on compatible devices. Starting today, the AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 with noise cancellation, paired with iPhones compatible with Apple Intelligence - Apple's artificial intelligence - […]
Madrid.- Teenagers have integrated AI into their daily lives, whether for studies or as a confidant in personal matters, although the majority also express reservations, including the use of images to create fake sexual content, according to 84% of them and 76% of them. These are some of the data revealed by the 'Así somos' […]
Washington.- The White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, stated in a report published this Tuesday that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has an "alcoholic personality" because he works with the idea that "there is nothing he cannot do". In a series of conversations held over the past year with Vanity Fair […]
Washington.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, wants to continue destroying vessels supposedly loaded with drugs in the Caribbean until the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, "surrenders", said the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in an interview published this Tuesday. Since September, a strong U.S. military deployment has destroyed about twenty boats […]
Mexico City.- The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, assured this Tuesday that her Government "will analyze the implications" of the executive order signed on Monday by US President Donald Trump to declare fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction". "On the one hand, we are going to analyze it. Second, the issue of consumption cannot […]
San José.- The President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, ruled out his attendance this Tuesday at the Congress, where it is planned that the deputies will hold a special session to vote on a request for disqualification against him presented by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for alleged interference in political-electoral matters. "President Rodrigo Chaves Robles […]
Caracas.- The Venezuelan government announced this Monday that it extinguished "immediately" any "agreement, contract or negotiation" to supply natural gas to Trinidad and Tobago, amid growing tensions over the US air and naval deployment in the Caribbean. In a statement released on Telegram by the Executive Vice President and Minister of Hydrocarbons, Delcy Rodríguez, the […]
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Recognized platform announced that everything is ready for the big concert "We Adore Together at Christmas", which will be held this December 16th starting at 5:00 p.m. on Isabela Aguiar Avenue, Herrera sector. The event, which is completely free, is designed as a meeting space for the whole family, a night in […]
The New Year's Eve Bailazo returns with a grand celebration: 12 uninterrupted hours of music, merengue, and party to bid farewell to 2025 and welcome 2026 to the rhythm of accordion, güira, and tambora. The event will bring together prominent figures of traditional, typical, and Christmas merengue in a night that promises to be unforgettable. […]
Santo Domingo. – After more than two decades marking the history of urban music, Yandel, reggaeton legend and one of the creators of the genre, will arrive in the Dominican Republic with his show “Yandel Sinfónico”, an innovative proposal that reinterprets his great hits accompanied by The National Symphony Orchestra live. The concert will be […]
The acclaimed artists Romeo Santos and Prince Royce officially announced this Monday through a reel shared on their social media their joint tour “Better Late Than Ever”, scheduled for the year 2026. The audiovisual material featured the participation of Dominican actor Manny Pérez and comedian Splou, generating great impact among the followers of both artists […]
A movie based on real events is among the most viewed on Netflix. It's Togo, a story that recounts the fundamental role of a dog in the serum run to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. The production, originally released by Disney in 2019 and which has been part of the streaming platform's catalog since December 2025, […]
In the Dominican Republic, presidents don't fall because of the opposition. They fall because of something more intimate and devastating: their own family. When corruption shares the same last name as the presidential band, it ceases to be a case and becomes a sentence. It's not a contract that is judged: it's the entire credibility […]
In 2015, an internal crisis within the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) forced the leadership of that organization to promote a constitutional reform to enable President Danilo Medina, who had been elected in 2012 through a constitution that prohibited consecutive re-election. Medina was eligible to try to return in 2020, that is, after a period, a […]
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"I am a tolerant and democratic president, but everything has a limit... We will continue to govern for the people and, for that reason, I say to all pre-candidates and their coordinators: proselitizing acts to officials are not allowed. If they want to campaign, they must leave their positions." Thus spoke the head of state, […]
Santo Domingo,.- The Central Bank stated this Monday that there are 5,149,829 people employed in the country, for a year-on-year increase of 2.4%, equivalent to 119,965 net employed compared to the July-September 2024 period. The employment rate, that is, the ratio between the total employed and the working-age population, stood at 63.1% for July-September 2025, […]
As a grim, somber, scandalous, extremely serious, cruel to the extreme case, a kind of collective frenzy and collective holocaust, the permanent attention judge Rigoberto Sena Ferreras, qualified the case of the multimillion-dollar fraud in the National Health Insurance (SENASA). "When one goes to the State to drain its institutions, it constitutes an act of […]
Santo Domingo,.- The Government decided today to maintain the prices of gasoline, diesel and propane gas for the week of December 13 to 19, for which, it assured, allocated a subsidy of 227.4 million pesos. In that order, premium gasoline will remain at 290.10 per gallon, while regular gasoline will be at RD$272.50 per gallon. […]
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Santo Domingo.- The seven-year prison sentence against Alexis Medina Sánchez, brother of former President Danilo Medina, marks only the beginning of a much broader process. Experts warn that what will be decisive will not only be the sentence, but how the appeals are resolved and what signals this case sends about the real effectiveness of the judicial system against corruption.
For criminal lawyer Valentín Peña, the real test of the case will be played out in the Court of Appeal, where the judges will have the power to confirm, modify, or even reverse the sentence.
“Let's assume these people are really guilty, which we don't know because they have a conviction that is not final; that is, they do not have the authority of the definitively and irrevocably judged thing”, explained Peña.
Valentín Peña, abogado penalista.
The Public Prosecutor's Office's Debt
Beyond the ruling against Medina, the criminal lawyer points out that the Public Ministry faces a greater challenge, dozens of corruption files still unopened, which raises doubts about the coherence of the anti-corruption discourse.
“They have lied to us, they have been telling us that what is sought with these cases is to proscribe corruption. However, the Public Ministry has approximately two hundred and something corruption cases, at least, pointed out as such from the current government that have not been opened,” recalled Peña.
This situation, the jurist warns, fuels the perception that justice in matters of corruption remains selective and partial, and that high-profile cases receive different treatment than ordinary files. Of more than 21 people linked, only seven were convicted, while the rest were acquitted.
Another critical point is the citizens' perception of the magnitude of the sanctions. For Peña, a part of the population considers that the penalties imposed do not reflect the real damage caused by the acts of corruption. “First, it sends the idea that the penalties, for example, do not meet the expectations of society. A part of society could see it that way,” the jurist pointed out.
With the sentence already issued, the case enters a critical stage. The Court of Appeals will evaluate the sanction and the responsibility of the convicted, with the possibility of reducing sentences, acquitting defendants, or ordering a new trial if procedural irregularities are found. Later, the Supreme Court of Justice could intervene through an appeal for cassation, finally defining the fate of the file.
This scenario keeps open the question of whether the case of Alexis Medina will be remembered as a real milestone in the fight against corruption or as another media episode that, despite the initial noise, ends up reinforcing the perception of impunity.
Real milestone or media episode?
Beyond the legal aspects, the great unknown remains in the social and political arena. The ruling against Alexis Medina may consolidate as a historic precedent in the fight against corruption or be recorded as another media episode that failed to transform the perception of impunity that persists in large sectors of the population.
What happens in the coming months will be decisive for citizens' trust in the justice system. If the courts uphold the ruling and strengthen it with solid arguments, the case could be remembered as a turning point. But if it crumbles on appeal, it will reinforce the idea that the major corruption trials in the Dominican Republic end up being more spectacle than consequence.
Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader congratulated this Monday the president-elect of Chile, José Antonio Kast, winner of the second round of elections in that country. Kast, a 59-year-old far-rightist, obtained 48.1% of the votes in yesterday's election, to defeat the candidate of the Communist Party of Chile, Jeannette Jara, who won 41.83% of the votes. […]
Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader signed decree 664-25 authorizing the extradition to Puerto Rico of Esteffani (Ethian) José Vásquez Amarante, who faces charges before the United States justice system for drug trafficking and money laundering. Vásquez Amarante, ex-partner of congresswoman Jacqueline Fernández Brito, representative of La Romana for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), is accused […]
Santo Domingo.– Citizens consulted this Monday expressed their support for the court's decision to impose 18 months of preventive detention on several of those accused in the Senasa case, considering that the measure responds to the seriousness of the accusations of alleged administrative irregularities in the past management of the National Health Insurance. During a […]
Santo Domingo. – The judges of the Second Chamber of the Superior Administrative Tribunal (TSA) annulled a ruling that ordered the Dominican State to pay a fair price to several individuals for land allegedly expropriated within the Cotubanamá National Park, in the municipality of San Rafael del Yuma. The decision was adopted by magistrates Antonio […]
Santo Domingo.– The Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, highlighted this Monday a reduction in reports of robberies in the Dominican Republic, during the meeting to monitor citizen security, as a result of the strengthening of police operations and preventive actions implemented by the Government. Raful reported that in December, 1,410 complaints were registered, […]
Santo Domingo.– Judge Rigoberto Sena, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District, imposed 18 months of preventive prison and house arrest as coercive measures against the accused in the case of alleged administrative corruption involving the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa). By his decision, the magistrate ordered 18 months of preventive […]
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