L. Fernandez, second from left.
CARTAGENA, Colombia.- President Leonel Fernandez Thursday said the 55 Arab and Latin American countries need connect because their annual GDP of US$10 trillion makes it the world’s 2nd biggest economy, and its billions of people account for a 7th part of the global population, only behind China and India.
Speaking in the Arab-Latin American International Forum, the chief executive said if the Arab world and Latin America identify common elements, they can become a great world power.
He also noted the importance of the Arab world’s around 20 million immigrants to Latin America, which he affirms is a natural bond between those two regions.
Fernandez said to advance, the multiform and heterogeneous opportunities and challenges between both regions need to be identified, citing governance, competitiveness, social inclusion and cultural identity.
He stressed that the Forum titled Constructing an Alliance for Development and Peace, visualizes a new paradigm in international relations, because globalization has give rise to a new perspective, which is interregional relations.
As a result of the Forum held in the Hotel Hilston, Fernandez announced the creation of a center to provide follow-up to the relations between both regions, whose name will be the Center for Arab, Latin America and the Caribbean Relations, which would be founded by a council of 15 members, seven from the Arab world, seven from Latin America and a president.
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 8:01 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
"Speaking in the Arab-Latin American International Forum, the chief executive said if the Arab world and Latin America identify common elements, they can become a great world power.'
I am sure this is comforting to the US State Department and the Israeli government.
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 8:03 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
This guy is so desperate to achieve some relevance on the world stage that he will say anything to grab some headlines.
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 8:19 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Less take a trip back through recent memory lane and see what was the US State Department’s opinion about one of the relatively recent forays in to international affairs by the “Dominican Henry Kissinger” wannabe.
Wikileaks: Cable in the United States criticized Leonel's involvement in Honduras crisis as "indiscreet" and "awkward"
http://www.acento.com.do/index.ph....y-torpe-ante-crisis-Honduras.htmlWritten by: juanb, 2 Dec 2011 9:52 AM
From: Dominican Republic
There should be no fear of anything that LF gets involved with. As with everything that he has done so far, it will be doomed to fail.
Written by: curlando, 2 Dec 2011 10:21 AM
From: United States, Bronx
Puppet governments scratching at the world for attention.
Written by: RoyStone, 2 Dec 2011 10:29 AM
From: Australia
Wow, we are now part of the 2nd biggest economy in the world, the Middle-East and Latin-America!
I didn't know they were integrated. Does that mean Leo will be severing our privileged status with USA? Maybe New Zealand should join the EU, leave ANZUS and join NATO?
In Quebec they speak mostly French. Does that make Canada part of Latin-America, and by association, part of the Middle-East?
Maybe Leo missed out nomination for the next Secretary General of the UN and now wants to take over from his old friend, Gaddafi as president of Libya?
The mind boggles!
Written by: kennyB, 2 Dec 2011 10:35 AM
From: United States
Josean,
You, sir, have no decency, no class, and no moral compass, you lack of any sort of objectivity or decency. You say you are a "truth speaker"? No, you're simply a paid stooge for a another crooked politician.
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 12:15 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Here are some other people that by your "standards" "have no decency, no class, and no moral compass, (or) lack of any sort of objectivity or decency"
Wikileaks: US criticizes the failure of the case Sun Land, drug trafficking, corruption and favoritism
UNITED STATES says in Dominican Republic laws on transparency and drug trafficking are dead letters
The US castigates the pardon for Vivian Lubrano from Baninter and other corrupt persons, comments on the narco Paya case and the courageous complaints of Senator Wilton Guerrero
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic.-T he Embassy of the United States in Santo Domingo in 2008 criticized the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice on the illegal Sund Land loan, the involvement of senior police officers and military personnel in drug trafficking and the pardons granted by President Leonel Fernández to persons convicted of corruption.
continued:
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 12:16 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Written by: RoyStone, 2 Dec 2011 12:36 PM
From: Australia
josean,
It seems to me there is unanimous recognition on this site that corruption and drug-trafficking is rife in the Dominican Republic. Yet when you provide evidence supporting this, you get attacked. Did you do something real bad in a previous life?
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 12:45 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Roy,
I must have my brother, I must have!
But as youn know quite well, there no worse blindman than the one that refuses to see.
Written by: Pepe32, 2 Dec 2011 1:22 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Hard to believe but I agree with Josean 100% on this one!
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
I can see an interest in oil here. What is a BIG CULTURAL DIFFERANCE is that Muslims don't beleive that any other religion should exist. That may be news to LF. The D.R. is a predomanantly Catholic country. This could be an oil and water mixture.
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 1:56 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
How are you are Pepe 32 my old principled nemesis?
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
Easyrider,
Did you know that leonels future son-n-law is in the petroleum business and don't forget the deal leonel did with chavez for the only refinery DR has, I believe 47 - 49% was sold to chavez, but, no one asked leonel how much shares does he own. If you combine leo and chavez holdings in the refinery, the majority rules and DR wont have any say in it. So, yes.... there might be an Oil interest here, plus the article yesterday stated DR is full of it(oil and shet)
Written by: Escott, 2 Dec 2011 4:47 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a 2 days a month for payday
Not bad for Fernandez. First Hugo, then Palestine and NOW the rest of the Arab world. I think all he has between his ears is Fantasyland. What a buffoon this supposedly educated man has turned out to be.
I am voting for HIPPO! Yes I remember his Presidency but I also remember prices lower here, more money in the street and YES even when he bailed out the banks the country did ok. Ya know I remember the Sovereign Bonds which I never knew where the money went but I have less of an idea with Fernandez's 3x more borrowing. WHere did it go?
I swore I would not, could not but now... Hippo is my man.
Written by: RoyStone, 2 Dec 2011 5:23 PM
From: Australia
easyrider,
"Muslims don't beleive that any other religion should exist"
So Christians are different in that regard?
They can't even agree amongst themselves! Pentecostals hate Catholics, etc. Every denomination thinks they're the only true followers of Jesus and the rest are wrong abd doomed to spend eternity in hell! I go just one step further - they are all wrong!
Perhaps Leo has found a solution to this country's population explosion - under Islamic Sharia Law, adulterers are stoned to death, and thieves have their hands cut off. Also charging interest on loans is illegal.
God is Great. Amen.
Written by: RoyStone, 2 Dec 2011 5:27 PM
From: Australia
Escott,
Gee I'm looking forward to prices dropping to what they were in Hipo's day! Now what actual day was that - I'm told that prices changed daily.
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 5:27 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
While Mr. Know it all is gallivanting around the world at the taxpayers on non-priority self-promoting tours, ignoring the reality of the state of affairs in the Dominican Republic, other see economic clouds gathering over his Narco-macro economic miracle:
JP Morgan sees that it will be difficult for DR to follow agreement with the IMF
SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic)-a report published on Wednesday of this week, by the financial consortium JP Morgan Chase considers it difficult task for the Dominican Government to meet fiscal targets projected in the 2012 budget and those agreed with the International Monetary Fund.
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=112217Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2011 6:44 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
As Lie-onel runs up the bill on the state credit card winning and dining away the last days (thank GOD) of his disastrous reign, education continues to go to hell in DR:
UASD to close San Pedro campus for lack of resources
SANTO DOMINGO (r. Dominicana).-the financial crisis facing the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) will force it to close the San Pedro de Macoris campus next year.
What ever happened to "Es P'a lante que Vamos” and all that jazz about the Dominican economy was immune from the world financial crisis.
Well on second thought it may be it is immune for the world financial crisis but not from the Dominican corruption crisis.
Soon they will own up to the world financial crisis as subterfuge to continue stealing until the last very last second!
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=112252Written by: RoyStone, 2 Dec 2011 7:21 PM
From: Australia
UASD's claim to fame is being the oldest university in the Americas, and when you see their buildings, you can believe it.
UASD medical interns in San Cristobal (who provide most of the treatment and are unpaid) had to chip in their own money to buy a door for the room in the hospital where they get 3 hours sleep, when working overnight, because the hospital couldn't afford it.
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
bond between those two regions.
Fernandez said to advance, the multiform and heterogeneous opportunities and challenges between both regions need to be identified, citing governance, competitiveness, social inclusion and cultural identity.
Mr leonel fernandez to accomplish that first , you need to be competetive, and have social inclusion, something that dominican republic does not have , not to mention that we are in third place has most corrupted in latin america.
Written by: Grosero, 3 Dec 2011 12:50 PM
From: United States
Dominican leader eyes orchestrating a global Arab-LatAm plutocracy
Written by: BASTA, 3 Dec 2011 1:08 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
This could be an oil and water mixture.= Just add soap.
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
Roy Stone
The average muslim family consists of 8.2 people far more than you find in the D.R. They propagate to create an army of voters so that in 18 years they can vote and put their own laws into affect as they did in Trinidad. I am unaware of any religions other than muslims that disallow other religions to exist.
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
Arabs have deep pockets. Maybe Leonel wants them to invest in the hardware and technology needed to extract the oil from D.R.
Written by: RoyStone, 3 Dec 2011 8:32 PM
From: Australia
easyrider,
Sure Christianity pays lip-service to tolerance of other religions, however in it's hey-day, the Dark Ages, and the church had much more power and influence, things were very different.
Sharia Law has the thin end of the wedge in Australian Law now. There are now exemptions to the Nondiscrimination Act to allow Islamic Organizations to discriminate against non-muslims in employment, schools can force girls to wear Islamic clothing, and they are pushing the Family Court to enforce Sharia Law when Muslims divorce.
Perhaps it is now Islam's turn to bring us into another Dark Ages? Imagine the Crusades with nukes, and the Inquisition's surveillance integrated into the internet!.
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"Speaking in the Arab-Latin American International Forum, the chief executive said if the Arab world and Latin America identify common elements, they can become a great world power.'
I am sure this is comforting to the US State Department and the Israeli government.
This guy is so desperate to achieve some relevance on the world stage that he will say anything to grab some headlines.
Less take a trip back through recent memory lane and see what was the US State Department’s opinion about one of the relatively recent forays in to international affairs by the “Dominican Henry Kissinger” wannabe.
Wikileaks: Cable in the United States criticized Leonel's involvement in Honduras crisis as "indiscreet" and "awkward"
http://www.acento.com.do/index.ph....y-torpe-ante-crisis-Honduras.html
I didn't know they were integrated. Does that mean Leo will be severing our privileged status with USA? Maybe New Zealand should join the EU, leave ANZUS and join NATO?
In Quebec they speak mostly French. Does that make Canada part of Latin-America, and by association, part of the Middle-East?
Maybe Leo missed out nomination for the next Secretary General of the UN and now wants to take over from his old friend, Gaddafi as president of Libya?
The mind boggles!
Josean,
You, sir, have no decency, no class, and no moral compass, you lack of any sort of objectivity or decency. You say you are a "truth speaker"? No, you're simply a paid stooge for a another crooked politician.
Here are some other people that by your "standards" "have no decency, no class, and no moral compass, (or) lack of any sort of objectivity or decency"
Wikileaks: US criticizes the failure of the case Sun Land, drug trafficking, corruption and favoritism
UNITED STATES says in Dominican Republic laws on transparency and drug trafficking are dead letters
The US castigates the pardon for Vivian Lubrano from Baninter and other corrupt persons, comments on the narco Paya case and the courageous complaints of Senator Wilton Guerrero
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic.-T he Embassy of the United States in Santo Domingo in 2008 criticized the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice on the illegal Sund Land loan, the involvement of senior police officers and military personnel in drug trafficking and the pardons granted by President Leonel Fernández to persons convicted of corruption.
continued:
"It also expressed these facts prove the institutional weakness and lack of respect for the laws, which makes the fight against corruption and drug trafficking inefficient to in the Dominican Republic."
http://www.acento.com.do/index.ph....ico-corrupcion-y-favoritismo.html
It seems to me there is unanimous recognition on this site that corruption and drug-trafficking is rife in the Dominican Republic. Yet when you provide evidence supporting this, you get attacked. Did you do something real bad in a previous life?
Roy,
I must have my brother, I must have!
But as youn know quite well, there no worse blindman than the one that refuses to see.
How are you are Pepe 32 my old principled nemesis?
Did you know that leonels future son-n-law is in the petroleum business and don't forget the deal leonel did with chavez for the only refinery DR has, I believe 47 - 49% was sold to chavez, but, no one asked leonel how much shares does he own. If you combine leo and chavez holdings in the refinery, the majority rules and DR wont have any say in it. So, yes.... there might be an Oil interest here, plus the article yesterday stated DR is full of it(oil and shet)
I am voting for HIPPO! Yes I remember his Presidency but I also remember prices lower here, more money in the street and YES even when he bailed out the banks the country did ok. Ya know I remember the Sovereign Bonds which I never knew where the money went but I have less of an idea with Fernandez's 3x more borrowing. WHere did it go?
I swore I would not, could not but now... Hippo is my man.
"Muslims don't beleive that any other religion should exist"
So Christians are different in that regard?
They can't even agree amongst themselves! Pentecostals hate Catholics, etc. Every denomination thinks they're the only true followers of Jesus and the rest are wrong abd doomed to spend eternity in hell! I go just one step further - they are all wrong!
Perhaps Leo has found a solution to this country's population explosion - under Islamic Sharia Law, adulterers are stoned to death, and thieves have their hands cut off. Also charging interest on loans is illegal.
God is Great. Amen.
Gee I'm looking forward to prices dropping to what they were in Hipo's day! Now what actual day was that - I'm told that prices changed daily.
While Mr. Know it all is gallivanting around the world at the taxpayers on non-priority self-promoting tours, ignoring the reality of the state of affairs in the Dominican Republic, other see economic clouds gathering over his Narco-macro economic miracle:
JP Morgan sees that it will be difficult for DR to follow agreement with the IMF
SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic)-a report published on Wednesday of this week, by the financial consortium JP Morgan Chase considers it difficult task for the Dominican Government to meet fiscal targets projected in the 2012 budget and those agreed with the International Monetary Fund.
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=112217
As Lie-onel runs up the bill on the state credit card winning and dining away the last days (thank GOD) of his disastrous reign, education continues to go to hell in DR:
UASD to close San Pedro campus for lack of resources
SANTO DOMINGO (r. Dominicana).-the financial crisis facing the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) will force it to close the San Pedro de Macoris campus next year.
What ever happened to "Es P'a lante que Vamos” and all that jazz about the Dominican economy was immune from the world financial crisis.
Well on second thought it may be it is immune for the world financial crisis but not from the Dominican corruption crisis.
Soon they will own up to the world financial crisis as subterfuge to continue stealing until the last very last second!
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=112252
UASD medical interns in San Cristobal (who provide most of the treatment and are unpaid) had to chip in their own money to buy a door for the room in the hospital where they get 3 hours sleep, when working overnight, because the hospital couldn't afford it.
Fernandez said to advance, the multiform and heterogeneous opportunities and challenges between both regions need to be identified, citing governance, competitiveness, social inclusion and cultural identity.
Mr leonel fernandez to accomplish that first , you need to be competetive, and have social inclusion, something that dominican republic does not have , not to mention that we are in third place has most corrupted in latin america.
The average muslim family consists of 8.2 people far more than you find in the D.R. They propagate to create an army of voters so that in 18 years they can vote and put their own laws into affect as they did in Trinidad. I am unaware of any religions other than muslims that disallow other religions to exist.
Sure Christianity pays lip-service to tolerance of other religions, however in it's hey-day, the Dark Ages, and the church had much more power and influence, things were very different.
Sharia Law has the thin end of the wedge in Australian Law now. There are now exemptions to the Nondiscrimination Act to allow Islamic Organizations to discriminate against non-muslims in employment, schools can force girls to wear Islamic clothing, and they are pushing the Family Court to enforce Sharia Law when Muslims divorce.
Perhaps it is now Islam's turn to bring us into another Dark Ages? Imagine the Crusades with nukes, and the Inquisition's surveillance integrated into the internet!.