Word: dominican
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TIME New York correspondent Edward Barnesreports that radio host Sonny Bloch,charged yesterday with defrauding investors of nearly $17 million,was arrested late today at his home in the Dominican Republic. Barnes reports that Bloch was taken without incident by Dominican authorities and immediately placed on a plane back to the U.S. to stand trial. Prosecutors yesterday indicted the radio host, whose 15-year-old show has been heard across the nation on 170 stations, on charges that he induced listeners to invest in a phony wireless cable system...
...commit their most horrible atrocities just after returning from U.S. "refresher" training, and they have not hesitated to kill and torture American citizens. This pattern extends to many Latin American countries that the U.S. influences. Over the last few decades, the C.I.A. has supported the butchers of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama, just to name a few. But there is only space in this column to quickly chronicle the sad tale of Guatemala...
...that beefed-up law enforcement has made it harder for illegal immigrants to cross the U.S.-Mexican border, the flow has shifted to this point of less resistance. The Dominican Republic's seven busy international airports and minimal visa restrictions make it difficult to monitor the comings and goings of foreigners. And once refugees weather the 110-mile boat trip from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, they can usually slip onto a U.S.-bound flight without a document check...
BUSINESS IS BOOMING. TURIN, A TRIP organizer from the small Dominican town of Miches, runs three trips every month. With each boat carrying 100 refugees, he grosses about $150,000 a year. If a boat capsizes or is captured, he gets another one and schedules an extra trip to recoup his costs. Says Turin: "There are always people willing to go." Recently, as darkness fell on Miches, Turin and his assistants and bodyguards whisked through the town, picking up passengers from safe houses and taking them to a gathering point on the beach. He was expecting a new batch...
...over. Soon they will all be picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard, returned to the Dominican Republic and fined $2 each. There will be no New York, no new life and no refund. The boat captains change clothes and seat themselves among the passengers to avoid detection. One female passenger starts to cry. Her trip is a waste, her future uncertain. But one boat captain is defiant. "We will go again next week," he vows. "They cannot stop...