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Local February 18, 2015 | 4:05 pm

Bishops blast the country’s ‘institutionalized violence, inequality’

Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s Catholic bishops on Wednesday said the country’s "institutionalized violence and inequality" is evident despite its economic growth in recent years, which hasn’t led to a significant reduction of poverty.

The said it’s unfair that the country’s poverty is still at 40 percent, when the Latin American average is 25%.

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