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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2008, file photo, designer Oscar de la Renta is applauded after the presentation of his fall 2008 collection during Fashion Week in New York. The designer, who died Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, at 82, shaped American couture half a century ago when it emerged as a serious rival to European fashion designers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Fashion icon mourned in Dominican homeland

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · October 21, 2014 6:43 pm

In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, people line up to apply for Haitian identity cards at an office recently opened in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is approving the first residency and work permits for migrants under a new program. To qualify for legal residency, migrants must have come to the Dominican Republic before October 2011. Migrants and advocates say the required documentation is hard to come up with and many may not make it by the May 31 deadline. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)

Dominican legal status still elusive for migrants

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · August 28, 2014 10:43 pm

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses Congress as Senate President Reinaldo Pared looks on in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Ban asked legislators to work toward preventing Dominicans of Haitian descent from being denied Dominican citizenship. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)

UN chief urges solution on Dominican citizenship

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · July 16, 2014 10:39 pm

In this June 10, 2014, photo, a Dominican employee takes Haitian Luccene Philome's fingersprints to start his registration in the "regularization process" of foreigners living in the Dominican Republic, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thousands of Haitians have been lining up, trying to take advantage of a rare opportunity to secure their legal status, but their hope is quickly dissipating because of the lack of their Haitians ID's. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)

Haitians thwarted as they seek Dominican status

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · July 4, 2014 4:14 am

In this May 15, 2014 photo, five-year-old Karla Sepulveda, who suffers chikungunya fever symptoms, waits with her grandmother for treatment in the pediatric area of a public hospital in the coastal town of Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. The mosquito-born virus, common in Africa and Asia, arrived to the Caribbean in late 2013 and has affected more than 10,000 people in the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)

Painful and rapid spread of new virus in Caribbean

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · May 22, 2014 3:51 pm

Dominican citizenship bill gets final OK in Senate

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · May 22, 2014 3:17 am

Dominican legislators approve citizenship bill

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · May 16, 2014 11:04 pm

Dominican leader’s bill would naturalize thousands

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · May 16, 2014 1:06 am

Retired Venezuelan Army Gen. Angel Vivas, armed and wearing a flak jacket, walks on his property in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. President Nicolas Maduro ordered on Saturday the arrest and investigation of the retired general for his statements on YouTube and Twitter. Maduro said Vivas is instigating violence at a time when two weeks of anti-government protests have left 10 dead and over 100 wounded. Vivas has been an opponent of the Venezuelan government since his 2007 resignation as director of the Ministry of Defense Engineering, due to the military's adoption of the slogan "Fatherland, socialism or death, we shall overcome," created in Cuba. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Hernandez)

Ex-Venezuelan general in armed standoff at home

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · February 24, 2014 3:08 am

Dominican official denies report of bird flu

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · June 8, 2013 8:19 pm

Dominicans probe claim website paid for sex lies

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · March 22, 2013 7:30 pm

Dominican police say women paid to accuse senator

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · March 18, 2013 10:49 pm