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Santo Domingo. - The commission which investigates the murder of the ex colonel Jose Amado González accused the Puerto Rican fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto of the crime, said the spokesman Marino Zapete Monday afternoon, just hours after the Presidency’s Drug Adviser revealed that the fugitive “had his generals.”

During the press conference to provide the investigation’s details, Zapete said the commission established that Figueroa and the officer gunned down December 24 were good friends, but ended their relation over a conflict some attribute to the fugitive’s obsession with orgies that may have included Gonzalez’s wife.

As to Figueroa’s relations with powerful figures, the Presidency’s Drug Adviser Marino Vinicio Castillo said this morning that the fugitive “had his generals,” as well as other senior officials in the Government’s intelligence services.

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50 comment(s)
Written by: tejada, 11 Jan 2010 2:44 PM
From: United States
lol, is the picture supposed to be unrecognizable?
Written by: msjersey, 11 Jan 2010 2:45 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
Of course!
Written by: ScandiViking, 11 Jan 2010 2:45 PM
From: Denmark
Oh no here we go again - forget about the drugs, coruption and generals complicity, lets divert this into a sex scandal.
Written by: WalterPolo, 11 Jan 2010 2:46 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
The fugitive had his general, his colonels, his president etc etc.

Tell us something we don´t know.
Written by: gmiller261, 11 Jan 2010 3:01 PM
From: United States

Do something MORONS.

Stop the Dominican Spin Doctoring.

I do not care if they were screwing sheep. I want the drugs gone. I want these generals and politician in jail.
Written by: gmiller261, 11 Jan 2010 3:04 PM
From: United States

"Some generals are preparing their defense."

Follow the money. These ill-educated thugs CAN NOT be driving a Mercedes even if it is in his wife's name.

You people are an embarrassment.


Written by: RosaLaLinda, 11 Jan 2010 3:07 PM
From: United States, Rock Hills, North Carolina
"...but ended their relation over a conflict some attribute to the fugitive’s obsession with orgies that may have included Gonzalez’s wife..."

Jajajajajajajajaja!!!
You just can't make this stuff up.
Dem' fella as giving the title of 'Banana Republic' a bad name.
Jajajajajajajajaja!!!
Written by: cibaeño75, 11 Jan 2010 3:09 PM
From: United States, New York City
Give names goddammit! Give names!
Written by: dominica, 11 Jan 2010 3:12 PM
From: United States
MILITARY HAS TOOOOOOOOO MUCH POWER IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED. they don't do much of what their job title entails instead they created their own job titles as drug traffickers and corrupt "MILITARY LAWMAKERS." Pretty sad that a country is a DEMOCRACY, has a government that is supposedly put into place by the people, but is controlled by the military. Very sad. Why is a president elected in the first place?
Written by: ScandiViking, 11 Jan 2010 3:16 PM
From: Denmark
g261,
what on earth has the sheep done wrong!!!!
Written by: Gringo_1, 11 Jan 2010 3:16 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
This will eventually become a Hollywood screen-play. Drug trafficking, betrayal, murder, sex. How can it get any better?
Written by: juanb, 11 Jan 2010 3:16 PM
From: Dominican Republic
The Presidency is bought, not won.
Written by: old_school_trinitario, 11 Jan 2010 3:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Carlos, barrio de matatanes, aqui no invente

ORGIES

including your best friend wife!!!!!!

man, this is getting better and better everyday
where can i download the figueroa orgy videos??

Written by: Ricardolito, 11 Jan 2010 3:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
This man Vinicio is one can short of a six pack ,,why would he make that stupid statement ,,this has been obvious and is just the reason for having the investigation rather than being progress in the investigation ,,I think he should resign,,
Written by: juanb, 11 Jan 2010 3:22 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Another investigative commission. Just what we needed.


If I were somehow involved with the drug trade, or just received some of the profits, as tribute, what I would probably do is:

I would appoint a do nothing "commission" with great fanfare. I would go to all of the media and tell them that I was doing this because I cared (notice that I wouldn't say what I cared about). Then I would have a trusted adviser act like a fool, blaming everyone except for Frosty the Snowman for the problems. And then to end all the interest in what was going on, I would have the commission blame every crime in the past 8 years on a person who operated with complete impugnity, with the complete cooperation of every level of government. Since the people responsible were not competent, or interested in stopping this guy and now have no idea where he is, I would let him take all of the blame. I'd even blame the lousy weather on him. Who would dare question a "commission"?
Written by: msjersey, 11 Jan 2010 3:55 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
By gmiller,

"YOU PEOPLE ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT"

I guess there's not corruption in your country if you have one.
...by the way is that g as in gorilla?
Written by: gmiller261, 11 Jan 2010 4:01 PM
From: United States
msjersey, One more time.

There is corruption, but when we find it we do something. Martha Stewart even went to jail

Dominicans do NOTHING. period. Dominicans have been bred to believe they are entitled to being corrupt. You are not, your leaders are wrong, get an education and grow up.

You people are an EMBARASSMENT. This current article is a daily activity in your country and I would not say a word if I haven’t seen 9 years of these atrocities going unpunished.
Written by: josean, 11 Jan 2010 4:05 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Pardon me but I been away for an hour or so, any comment from LIE-onel Fernandez, mister articulate, on this most serious matter!

Or is he still hiding under the bed at the National Palace since the shot at the Supreme Court last weekend!
Written by: Ricardolito, 11 Jan 2010 4:14 PM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
This is definitely better than any soap opera but if they make a film will it be a drama or a comedy ??
Written by: Atabey, 11 Jan 2010 4:17 PM
From: United States, NYC
"Dominicans have been bred to believe they are entitled to being corrupt." That's a pretty broad statement and generalization. I guess "some" does not enter into your discourse when discussing matters.
Written by: josean, 11 Jan 2010 4:17 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
You think LIE-onel Fernandez is still a Vinchista?
Written by: xwill7, 11 Jan 2010 4:19 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
josean,
your hero is in this pic... arrived via metro
Written by: msjersey, 11 Jan 2010 4:24 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
I get it Mr miller, you're American, me too, not by birth like you, but I have the blue passport with the eagle on it.

Are you for reaL? Washington invented corruption, wake up buddy, if I start with the many cases in the glorious USA this site don't have enough space to put down the information about how corrupt this country really is. What happen is, they are very, very good hiding the truth, like vietnam, corea, irak, nicaragua, etc, etc, etc....tumbas blanqueadas, that's what they are....(WHITEWASHED TOMBS)
Written by: Gringo_1, 11 Jan 2010 4:24 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
@gmiller
Is your statement directed at all Dominicans or just politicians? Please clarify.
Written by: gmiller261, 11 Jan 2010 4:43 PM
From: United States
msjersey, You do not know squat.

Well I can count on one hand how many Dominicans have been sufficiently sentenced for their crime.

The US crimes to humanity are 100’s of years before those events you chose, poor choices.

I would suggest you return to your native country and then you may get a sense of how corrupt the Dominican society is. At least you can get out of a US airport without having to give someone(s) propina. A small idea of how deep corruption is.

Once again, when we catch them, they pay. You can not say the same.
Written by: old_school_trinitario, 11 Jan 2010 4:55 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Carlos, barrio de matatanes, aqui no invente

atabey

gmiller considers all dominican to be corrupt and uneducated, except for the dominican pimp that is in charge of gmiller butt-hole.

Written by: PatDiamond, 11 Jan 2010 5:06 PM
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
MSJersey

It's Korea,not corea it's Iraq not Irak. FYI when naming a country the first letter is always in cap, my 8years old who is in 3rd grade knows this. It's fair to assume the gorrilla you referring to is probably a bit more educated than you. Please do keep us entertain in the new year
Written by: msjersey, 11 Jan 2010 5:21 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
This guy is sending me to my native country, as if the USA is not a land of immigrants.
Are you a native American mr miller? you know like cherokee or sioux, not a white boy from europe, if not SHUT THE **** UP.
Written by: msjersey, 11 Jan 2010 5:22 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
Look who came out crawling out the wood work, mr pat himself.
Likewise, happy 2010.
Written by: gmiller261, 11 Jan 2010 5:31 PM
From: United States
msjersey, Ahhh the macho mentality knee jerk reaction that makes me sick.

My statement was "I would suggest " you read it "This guy is sending me to my native country".

And vulgarity is the implement of the ignorant.

Written by: Perception, 11 Jan 2010 5:33 PM
From: United States
The commission which investigates the murder of the ex colonel Jose Amado González accused the Puerto Rican fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto of the crime, said the spokesman Marino Zapete Monday afternoon, just hours after the Presidency’s Drug Adviser revealed that the fugitive “had his generals.”

0000

LOL
Written by: Perception, 11 Jan 2010 5:41 PM
From: United States
That's not the photo of Chavez ???
Written by: msjersey, 11 Jan 2010 5:42 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
I know it is corrupt, but you are passing judgement on an entire nation that has a lot of good people.
Written by: msjersey, 11 Jan 2010 5:46 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
"that bitch msjersey is justlike those shitheads in the gov. full of crap"

Written by: brootto, 11 Jan 2010 5:46 PM
From: United States, South West Florida
can you see those f#$ker are destroying the country, look the entire gov., military and the policy need to be reinvented. otherwise we are not going to be able to visit the motherland it will become mexico if is not there already. My friend son got kidnap by police officers yes sir.
Written by: gmiller261, 11 Jan 2010 5:56 PM
From: United States
msjersey, “passing judgment”, I like that terminology, I wish I could.

It is the Dominicans’ in authority that need the wake up call. The entire nation is suffering from this entitled mentality they have acquired and I can not see it changing because they keep the rest of the country ill-educated and poor.

It is the Dominican majority that I am completely frustrated with because they just accept their fate. If you feel you have more integrity than these so-called educated politicians, Stand-up and Shout-it out. And keep shouting.

Four dead in Ohio…..

Written by: gmiller261, 11 Jan 2010 6:02 PM
From: United States
msjersey,

Sorry for the derogatory comment. brootto, you should apologize, to msjersey, not to those morons in governmnet.

Try not to ever, dignify those types of message with a reply.

Written by: josean, 11 Jan 2010 6:44 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Don't you guys miss the good ole days when life was simple?

Just a little corrupt official with 40 relatives working in do nothing jobs at the light company.

The president doing magic tricks and making a $130,000,000 million dollars from unconstitutionally obtained loan disappear.

A useless METRO built to get reelected for $750,000,000 million dollars, which we came to find out cost $180,000,000 million dollars less but whose counting.

An education minister that watered down the milk for the student’s breakfast program and suddenly shows up with a mansion in the mountains.

When all we had to worry about was electing senators that new more about the Bronx than San Pedro.

Yes, times were simpler then until the Boricua came and corrupted our military and civil institutions.
Written by: hellborn25, 11 Jan 2010 8:15 PM
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
IF I here one more story about this faggot puerto rican Im gonna jump of the george washinton bridge
Written by: ScandiViking, 11 Jan 2010 8:17 PM
From: Denmark
25,
Isnt the river frozen!!!!!
Written by: hellborn25, 11 Jan 2010 8:19 PM
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
frozen or not im going in
Written by: sauce, 11 Jan 2010 8:44 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Gmiller does have a point.
Written by: LaVerdad, 11 Jan 2010 8:58 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santiago
here here hellborn.. is agosto responsible for everything?
Written by: juanb, 11 Jan 2010 9:43 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Lf and his buddies would sure like you to think so.
Written by: glomarexplorer, 11 Jan 2010 11:00 PM
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes

Figueroa Agosto might have done more to expose corruption in DR than any past president or judicial body.

Perhaps we should consider granting him Dominican citizenship and the title of hero. At worst, he is really no worse than present leadership in all facets of government. At best, he will help us arrest corruption by exposing its extent and hierarchy.

Heck, I am all for giving this guy a full pardon, but I first want names-all of them. I would even propose giving him 72 virgins and letting keep his villas and yippetas. His actions have been significant beyond belief. Heck, we pardoned Vivian and she did way more damage than this guy ever did, for she robbed mom and pop's life savings and that's unpardonable. When I think of poor Dominicans washing floors, performing as day laborers to save a little money to some day realize dream of owning a home, and having this pitiful scum steal their money with impunity, I want to strangle her with my own two hands.

MJEV.
Written by: CarlosFranco, 12 Jan 2010 7:39 AM
From: United States, Brooklyn

Lots of heads are rolling, maybe some of you should interpret that as a sign that the administration is working hard against drug cartels

Written by: josean, 12 Jan 2010 9:10 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
"Written by: cbelk99, 12 Jan 2010 12:30 AM
From: United States
Josean I have been reading your post for over a year ,I DON T LIKE YOU."

99,


People usually can't "handle the truth!'

That simple means you are in the withdrawal phase of you recovery from LIE-onel Fernandez and PLD dependency! It’s a combination of tough love and scared straight.

It’s a process; hang in there, not everybody has the testicular fortitude of Guillermo Moreno to go cold turkey!
Written by: pelaut, 12 Jan 2010 9:51 AM
From: United States
Is Bill Clinton on tape at the sex parties?
This guy is covered really high up.
Follow the money?
Well Carlos Slim gave $100M to Clinton Library, Clinton Library then gave $2M to DR foundation for girls with AIDS, then DR AIDS foundation gave Clinton Library $10M — and during the same months the puente droga moved from Colombia-Haiti-US to Ven-DR-US.

Party on, guys.
Written by: Atabey, 12 Jan 2010 10:40 AM
From: United States, NYC
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo.- The Presidency’s Adviser on Drugs said yesterday if he were an investigator he would try to interrogate two ex heads of the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD), so they explain how the expulsion and extradition request for the fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto was revoked. Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) however weighed the responsibility and the capacity of the generals Radhamés Ramirez Ferreira and Héctor Lachapelle Suero. “I am raising this in a very personal way. But if I were an investigator, I would possibly have interrogated them." Castillo also reiterated that Figueroa had links with Hipólito Mejía’s Presidency (2000-2004), when Lachapelle was DNCD chief. The official, speaking after meeting with National Investigation Department (DNI) director Ramon Antonio Aquino, said the ex Army major Antonio Saviñón Aybar, investigated in the murder of ex colonel Jose Amado González, worked with Mejia’s Administrative Minister Siquió Ng de la Rosa. Read original a
Written by: joshtati14, 13 Jan 2010 2:52 PM
From: United States, South Plainfield, New Jersey
Is just amazing how easy and quickly the government can fix’s most of the drug problems in DR if they really want to fix’s it. All they have to do is follow the money. You don’t need to be rocket scientist to see that there is something wrong with this picture. For ensample when you travel throughout the country, you see government officials, senior military, national police officers and foreigners with mega fincas, businesses, luxury houses, apartments, boats and top of the line SUV. Doe any body ever wonder where they get their money from. The governments need to start there investigation with these people first. Follow the money.
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