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Castillo (born in San
Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic) is the son of Pelegrín Castillo Agramonte, also an attorney and founder of a law firm that Vincho maintains until today, and Narcisa Rodríguez. He married Sogela Semán, the daughter of Christian Palestinian immigrants from
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since elevated drug profits found their way into the economy of the island nation. During the last 15 years, office buildings, apartments towers, hotels and shopping centers are springing up in Santo
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and unleashed the events causing one of the
Dominican Republic's worst financial crisis in its history. The defunct Baninter's fraud cost the Dominican taxpayers more than
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Horacio Cano, a man indicted on 57 counts of narcotrafficking and convicted in U.S. federal court. According to a statement released by Castillo in March 2006,
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heightened its infiltration of the
Dominican political parties and the Armed Forces because of the “paradise” and protection provided during
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On May 11, 1998 Castillo was quoted as saying "There is a process of
Colombianization going on, it is a very serious threat," adding, "The
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By the 1990s, Vincho was a presidential candidate and a senate candidate, but lost both elections. From 1996, he adhered himself to
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may not have been able to detect it happening there, but here we can see the narcotics traffickers covertly infiltrating the
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Linked to the most obscure faction of then-ruling
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that caused the electoral conflict of 1978, when President Balaguer refused to accept
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and announced the seizure of three drug-transporting planes owned by Mexican
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Castillo has been an outspoken law-and-order crusader for over twenty years
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seized in December 2004 in the case against the ex-Army captain
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Presidents of political parties in the Dominican Republic
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congressman of being linked to drug-trafficking suspect
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364:(in Spanish). El Municipio. 8 November 2013
188:system, political parties and the media."
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