About Luis Abinader
President Luis Abinader relaunched the Regional Book Fair in Santiago after more than two decades, an event he described as "the largest one ever held in Santiago and the Cibao." He stated that the fair includes representation from each province of the Cibao region, including Samaná, La Vega, Puerto Plata, and others. Abinader also inaugurated several roads in the Sierra region, including an 8.3-kilometer road connecting Tabera with Jarabacoa, which he said would serve as a second entrance to Jarabacoa from the Duarte highway and reduce travel time to approximately 40 minutes. Additional roads opened included the Cruce de Pedregal–La Guázuma road and the Rincón de Piedra–Carrizal road.
In a separate address, Abinader called for a major national agreement to address the global crisis, citing the conflict in the Middle East. He said he instructed ministers to begin consultations with productive, political, and social sectors to seek consensus on plans to maintain economic growth and mitigate the impact on Dominican families. Abinader also reported that the National Security and Defense Council met to evaluate the regional situation following the arrival of the first contingent of the UN-established Force for the Suppression of Gangs in Haiti. He stated that the government has reinforced surveillance along the entire border with new technology and that the armed forces are prepared and deployed to respond to any contingency.
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That's right. The Dominican Republic becomes Google's gateway into the region. The agreement includes a world-class data hub, submarine cables connecting to data centers in the United States, and the consolidation of the Dominican Republic as a strategic digital connectivity hub between North, Central, and South America. This agreement will make us the most competitive country for investment by technology companies.
In that same vision of the future and commitment to high-value-added sectors, the Dominican Republic continues to position itself as a reliable destination for the world's most advanced technological investments. And I want to announce today that after three years of negotiations, this month we signed a historic agreement with the U.S. company Launch on Demand Lod Holding for the development of a commercial spaceport in Oviedo, Pedernales.
This is a pioneering infrastructure that opens our country's doors to the global space economy. Yes, the global space economy, with more than 600 million dollars in investment. It seems to me that the investors, Mr. Burton Catlich must be present—I ask for them to be here, Burton—who for decades was director of operations and brings a team specialized with North American investment funds to make this great investment. Before May 2028, listen well, because I know they will follow us, we are already going to send a satellite or a rocket into space from Pedernales, so you can believe it.
Dominican Republic. Thus, Pedernales not only consolidates as a tourism and logistics development hub, but also as a symbol of a nation looking to the future, adding this initiative to the arrival and expansion of major global technology players like Google or Nvidia, which today see our country as a secure platform to innovate, invest, and grow. We are a country on the path of the sun, but also a country on the path of technology, of artificial intelligence, of the future of work, and of the next generation economy. Assembly members.
