By JUAN TH
The government spends 500 million dollars a month in advertising. That's a lot of money for a country which has more than 70 percent of its population in poverty, without access to education, health, electricity, water, shelter, etc.
We're talking about six billion dollars a year which is more than what some secretaries of state are important for national development. These
500 million a month, six billion a year spent on promoting the figure of the president to go after the re-election in the payment of "consulting" and "services" to certain journalists, advertising and propaganda .
Nearly a thousand journalists from across the country are now on the public payroll, which is unprecedented. Someone told me it was not fair to criticize the journalists who work in government. And it is true, should not be condemned nobody's job. On the contrary, work such as housing, health and education are rights. I do not criticize it, the work of any journalist, critic of government action to corrupt journalists, to buy public opinion, creating a current of public opinion based on lies, silence and self-censorship. That is reprehensible, it deserves at least ethical sanction, which had to create a scandal, what should be reported to international agencies.
The disproportionate raise the Accounts Chamber triggered a tsunami in the press that published daily criticism and condemnation for violating the government's austerity, but nothing happens when we hear officials who earn more than a million pesos a month, or 12 million pesos a year, without count the other "inputs" marginal as credit card expenses, gasoline, driver, security, air travel, per diem, etc.
No one is shocked by the expenses of the Office of the First Lady, nor unexpected trip from Guatemala to Santo Domingo to attend the graduation of one of their children as the alternative press that cost more than $ 30 000, ie more one million pesos.
The government corruption scandals come and go without anything happening, no one blushes, or do anything. The silence, which the government pays part of complicity.
People say that "the press is bought."
I'd say a good part of the press, or that a good part of the owners of large media receive government benefits or is subject to the interests of the government due to legal problems of some of the owners.
A radio station, for example, received in cash, two million dollars for the season finale of the President. That same season usually receives a million dollars for special programs made from the National Palace or from any other state institution, including some municipalities. Is not that a way to pay the silence, complacency and the "soft píchamela?
When the Central Electoral Board to regulate advertising speaks I think, not in an attempt to violate the right to information and dissemination of ideas, but that big government spending during the election campaign.
Virtually all advertising for the various public institutions disappeared from the media during the election campaign of PLD Danilo Medina where he was defeated by the State, as he said. The reason is simple: replacement of wedges.
The JCE whether it is empowered by law to regulate advertising and propaganda during the election campaign. And if it is not clear enough for some, as to submit a draft law regulating state publicity, and conviction that prevents the replacement of commercials, which prohibits the proselytizing of state resources through paid advertising with resources from the national budget.
President Fernandez is in full campaign, 24 hours a day, every day. Danilo Medina fences were removed, but the president still in the same places. Nobody will take them, no one dares or dare.
The press reported in the groups that "support" re-election, paid for with public funds, can be read every day.
The 500 million pesos a month that the government spends on advertising and advertising will rise to 600 or who knows how many millions. I can calculate that the government will invest in six or seven months of the election campaign about 3 billion pesos. So it sounds like: Three billion pesos. This amount does not include, of course, the money they raise and spend Party. We talked then, a brutal amount, incalculable, in promoting the candidacy official.
No opposition party, no candidate, even money you have or receive, can compete with the government, with this government.
And that's where it should intervene, as referee, as an entity independent moderator, the Junta Central Electoral if you really want to run a transparent process with equal conditions for all. That's why I agree with the regulation of advertising and propaganda of political parties and candidates for elections next year. For an electoral process is transparent, transparent, democratic, there must be equality. That is what guarantees universal free and transparent vote. If we let him free hand to the president is able to open the vault of the Central Bank and the Reserve Bank to ensure their reelection.
The government spends 500 million dollars a month in advertising. That's a lot of money for a country which has more than 70 percent of its population in poverty, without access to education, health, electricity, water, shelter, etc.
We're talking about six billion dollars a year which is more than what some secretaries of state are important for national development. These
500 million a month, six billion a year spent on promoting the figure of the president to go after the re-election in the payment of "consulting" and "services" to certain journalists, advertising and propaganda .
Nearly a thousand journalists from across the country are now on the public payroll, which is unprecedented. Someone told me it was not fair to criticize the journalists who work in government. And it is true, should not be condemned nobody's job. On the contrary, work such as housing, health and education are rights. I do not criticize it, the work of any journalist, critic of government action to corrupt journalists, to buy public opinion, creating a current of public opinion based on lies, silence and self-censorship. That is reprehensible, it deserves at least ethical sanction, which had to create a scandal, what should be reported to international agencies.
The disproportionate raise the Accounts Chamber triggered a tsunami in the press that published daily criticism and condemnation for violating the government's austerity, but nothing happens when we hear officials who earn more than a million pesos a month, or 12 million pesos a year, without count the other "inputs" marginal as credit card expenses, gasoline, driver, security, air travel, per diem, etc.
No one is shocked by the expenses of the Office of the First Lady, nor unexpected trip from Guatemala to Santo Domingo to attend the graduation of one of their children as the alternative press that cost more than $ 30 000, ie more one million pesos.
The government corruption scandals come and go without anything happening, no one blushes, or do anything. The silence, which the government pays part of complicity.
People say that "the press is bought."
I'd say a good part of the press, or that a good part of the owners of large media receive government benefits or is subject to the interests of the government due to legal problems of some of the owners.
A radio station, for example, received in cash, two million dollars for the season finale of the President. That same season usually receives a million dollars for special programs made from the National Palace or from any other state institution, including some municipalities. Is not that a way to pay the silence, complacency and the "soft píchamela?
When the Central Electoral Board to regulate advertising speaks I think, not in an attempt to violate the right to information and dissemination of ideas, but that big government spending during the election campaign.
Virtually all advertising for the various public institutions disappeared from the media during the election campaign of PLD Danilo Medina where he was defeated by the State, as he said. The reason is simple: replacement of wedges.
The JCE whether it is empowered by law to regulate advertising and propaganda during the election campaign. And if it is not clear enough for some, as to submit a draft law regulating state publicity, and conviction that prevents the replacement of commercials, which prohibits the proselytizing of state resources through paid advertising with resources from the national budget.
President Fernandez is in full campaign, 24 hours a day, every day. Danilo Medina fences were removed, but the president still in the same places. Nobody will take them, no one dares or dare.
The press reported in the groups that "support" re-election, paid for with public funds, can be read every day.
The 500 million pesos a month that the government spends on advertising and advertising will rise to 600 or who knows how many millions. I can calculate that the government will invest in six or seven months of the election campaign about 3 billion pesos. So it sounds like: Three billion pesos. This amount does not include, of course, the money they raise and spend Party. We talked then, a brutal amount, incalculable, in promoting the candidacy official.
No opposition party, no candidate, even money you have or receive, can compete with the government, with this government.
And that's where it should intervene, as referee, as an entity independent moderator, the Junta Central Electoral if you really want to run a transparent process with equal conditions for all. That's why I agree with the regulation of advertising and propaganda of political parties and candidates for elections next year. For an electoral process is transparent, transparent, democratic, there must be equality. That is what guarantees universal free and transparent vote. If we let him free hand to the president is able to open the vault of the Central Bank and the Reserve Bank to ensure their reelection.
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