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Santo Domingo.- The head of the bus owners grouped in Fenatrano, Juan Hubieres, was arrested near noon Thursday by Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) agents, accused of blocking a section of the busy avenue V Centenario, and for heading a picket in front of that agency.

Newspaper El Nacional reports that during a confrontation with drivers, several people were wound by bullets and clubs, some passengers among them.

AMET Public Relations chief Jose Jáquez said during the protest Hubieres blocked traffic with more than 40 buses, to demand that his group be given the passenger route leased to the unionist Felix Guzmán.

The AMET spokesman said Guzmán has a contract with the traffic control agency, though Hubieres wants to take over that route.

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Written by: gouletcolonial, 29 May 2008 1:53 PM
From: Canada
these people are thugs who hold the country hostage
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Written by: carbelk99 This user is banned, 29 May 2008 2:20 PM
From: United States
This guy Hubieres should be given 40 years in solitary.I have been following his and the others transport unions chiefs for over 10 years. He is a thug.
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Written by: bernies, 29 May 2008 3:25 PM
From: United States, falls church va
balaguer should it finished what he started long time ago.
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Written by: gouletcolonial, 29 May 2008 3:30 PM
From: Canada
Bernie the PRSC has him freeze dried in a corner at party headquarters and they are going to run him again in 2012
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Written by: Belial, 29 May 2008 7:20 PM
From: United States, Texas
Workers must fight to defend their economic rights.

The brutal and bestial reaction of the police affirms once again that the state in the DR is nothing but a bourgeois democracy ... if even that, chiefly concerned with enforcing the will and defending the interests of the rich against the workers.

The governing principle that rotten bourgeois power applies to workers and their legitimate struggles is "Be poor and quiet."

To beat the bourgeoisie in the economic form of the class struggle, the workers often need state power on their side, like in Venezuela. This rarely happens with a bourgeois state, whether the bourgeois state is democratic or autocratic or oligarchic or monarchical or in some other form.

The working class is not an independent political force in the DR politics. Rather the class is broken up into various sectors or tails attached to the stinking rear of various bourgeois leaders, including LF, who are palmed-off not as bourgeois, but as "Dominican."
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Written by: snoopyy3k, 30 May 2008 11:54 AM
From: United States
Those so called "Owners of the Country" will be getting their due very soon. Once the first line of the metro is up and running and people do not rely on their dispeakable services, they get the hint. I ca nnot wait to see the METRO' master plan completed and up and running with all it's six lines. Then we'll really see these losers finally out of the picture. And once and for all leave Dominican society progress in peace, the way it should have been from the begining. They are on borrowed time.
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Written by: gouletcolonial, 30 May 2008 11:57 AM
From: Canada
snoopy let us hope for this sueno ....no let us pray for it ....these sindicatos are self serving leeches
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Written by: BLANCO, 30 May 2008 12:05 PM
From: Dominican Republic
this guy hubieres has been around a long time constantly raising s---t, he has been involved in bombings etc, all govt cowtow to this idiot giing new buildings to run their union ana agod knows what else... dgii should be checking his bank account. i like his cross dressing the jacket of that jackass in iran and the beard of bernies buddy in cuba, both of who are still alive and raising
s---t, who does this guy represent...other prd s--t distrurbers
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Written by: saturnc15, 30 May 2008 6:38 PM
From: United States
I think Juan Hubieres is posing as Belial in these online threads.
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Written by: gouletcolonial, 30 May 2008 6:48 PM
From: Canada
very funny saturn but I think Hubieres has a brain
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