Rubio arrived at the National Palace accompanied by the Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Álvarez, and was received by the head official of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza, and the director of State Ceremony and Protocol, Ambassador Francisco José Cantizano.
At this moment a private meeting is taking place between the Dominican dignitary and the head of US diplomacy.
Later, they will go, together with their respective delegations, to a working lunch, in the Green Room, and then they will offer statements to the media, in the Ambassadors’ Room, according to the agenda of their visit.
The official delegation from the Dominican Republic is made up of Vice President Raquel Peña; the Ministers of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza; of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Álvarez; of Defense, Lieutenant General Carlos Antonio Fernández Onofre, and of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs, Víctor Bisonó.
Also present are the Minister of Energy and Mines, Joel Santos; the Vice Minister of Multilateral Foreign Policy, Rubén Silié Valdez, and the Director of Strategic Analysis of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Anselmo Muñiz.
Also included in the delegation are the Commander General of the National Army, Major General Jorge Iván Camino Pérez; the President of the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD), Vice Admiral José Manuel Cabrera, and the Director General of Prosecution of the Public Ministry, Yeni Berenice Reynoso.
Meanwhile, the visiting delegation is made up of the Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of the United States, Patricia Aguilera; Counselor Michael Needham; Senior official of the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Michael Kozak.
Also present were the Director of Policy Planning, Michael Anton; the State Department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce; the senior advisor for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Viviana Bovo, and the note taker Ali Nadir.
Marco Rubió arrived in this capital last night at Las Américas International Airport, where he was received by Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez.
The Dominican Republic is the last stop on his first international tour since he took office two weeks ago. He previously visited Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras.
Dominican left-wing political and social organizations describe his presence here as an act of interference in the internal affairs of this country and consider him persona non grata.
They say that Rubio seeks to impose Washington’s colonialist agenda on the Government of Luis Abinader.
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