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Local July 26, 2013 | 7:37 am

Dominican Republic to send more than 100 generals packing

Santo Domingo.- The Senate approved Thursday the deputies’ amendments to the Armed Forces Statutory Law, passed by the 21 lawmakers present at the session.

The bill, which president Danilo Medina is expected to sign into law, lowers the number of generals from the current more than 150 to just 45, “until reaching one per 1,000 soldiers within 6 years.”

It also leaves open the ... Read more