MontanaRon » election http://montanaron.com/wordpress Just another ordinary English teacher eclectic expat blog about nothing in particular. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:57:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Post-Election http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/24/post-election-376 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/24/post-election-376#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 10:35:14 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=376 Since I’m writing this, I obviously wasn’t injured by celebratory gunfire in the aftermath of last week’s elections. In fact, Boca Chica was fairly normal last Saturday–the taxi driver told me that the BIG and crazy celebrations were going on in Santo Domingo and other large cities. There was, in fact, a fairly long line [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/24/post-election-376/feed 0 Political Violence http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/17/political-violence-375 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/17/political-violence-375#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 08:52:33 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=375 Lest anyone think I’m exaggerating about the dangers of the election in the D.R., here’s an article about violence that resulted in 3 deaths yesterday. I’m going into Boca Chica later, but I really don’t expect to run into anything of this nature.

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/17/political-violence-375/feed 0 Update http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/16/update-4-374 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2008/05/16/update-4-374#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 17:56:58 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=374 There was a LOT of confusion among the players and coaches about when everyone would be allowed to go home to vote. The voting age here is 18, so most of the Dominican players are eligible to participate in the elections, but they have to vote in their home districts. The main scuttlebutt was that [...] Related posts:
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