Monday, July 2, 2007

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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.

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500 MILLION CAN RETURN TO THE POWER PRD


By JUAN TH
The PRD is in the corridors of power again. But it seems not to know.
Without doing anything, just wait for things to happen, as they are happening, the PRD is in an enviable position on the party candidate that has failed again and has become a frustration for most Dominicans look forward May 16 of next year out of the National Palace.
The public discontent is growing. Millions of people, as good Christians, they hit in the chest apologizing for having voted purple and bring to power a group that has ruled for himself itself and for the rich.
material living conditions of the population have fallen sharply in the last three years due to unemployment, the high cost of living, taxes, high fuel prices, electricity rates, power outages, lack of drinking water, and insecurity. Not to mention corruption, arrogance of officials who have been so inept as their leader.
The increase in poverty, the deterioration of the middle class and the dissatisfaction of some sectors of the economy by fiscal policy caused, of course, unhappy.
People are not happy with the government. On the contrary, it abhors.
But that does not mean that people are willing to vote for the PRD. Let me explain: This discontent, this frustration is not necessarily synonymous with sympathy for the candidate of the PRD. A large proportion of voters are frustrated because the promises are not met, because governments rise and fall, but nothing changes, nothing happens. The economic changes do not occur. Some say that they will not vote for any party, that all are equal, they promise and promise, but since coming up to bat forget the poor and middle class. Many people are suspicious, some no longer believe in the democratic system. Abstention becomes the largest party in the country. Can not be otherwise. Dominicans han estado acudiendo a las urnas durante muchos años con la esperanza de que surja un gobierno auténticamente democrático, es decir, un gobierno para la gente, no para la cúpula de los partidos y de los grupos de poder que cada cuatro años asaltan el Estado. La gente rechaza a Leonel. Ya no cree en sus palabras ni en sus promesas. La gente está harta de sus mentiras y de sus poses demagógicas. No más mentiras, no más engaños. El presidente habla y la gente no lo escucha. Siempre dice lo mismo: Que todo está bien, que la economía crece, que es pa lante que vamos. Y otras cantinfladas.
Solo en la prensa, en la que ha comprado con más de seis mil millones de pesos al año en propaganda y publicidad, is increasing its popularity. Only in public funds paid surveys is that the president wins the election next May. These surveys were done by the same assurances that he would beat President Danilo Medina with more than 90 percent. And for 70 per cent had to invest hundreds of millions of pesos of the national budget to buy officials and many other pranks, otherwise the candidate would be Danilo.
The president can not win, but you can stay in power unless the PRD do what you must do not forget that Dr. Balaguer, who the president is at the bottom of the letter, he became an expert on election win by losing. Presidents do not
underestimated. And even less when they have resources, when they have a party structure, political and military. Fernandez underestimate the child would be a mistake.
To defeat the president, his party, its monetary resources, in press and speakers, must be well organized, must have a very clear policy, it should be a tactic and a well designed strategy. Not talking shit on a television or radio, is not disqualifying their own peers, not by creating a ring around the presidential candidate to prevent others will come to conquer power. Must be added wills, unite, not divide.
The so-called new PRD can not overcome all obstacles that are presented. Many "leaders" of the new PRD will never die of a stroke. The new PRD has to find the "PRD old" if you want to return to power.
The PRD has to be one. Neither new nor old. The PRD, with all his paintings, with all its leaders, for all its militancy, with all its supporters. The PRD can not discriminate. How is the new PRD rejects the old PRD have remained steadfast in his party, but proposes amnesty for traitors?
The PRD, as a single party, not as a federation of groups, each on his side can defeat the LDP. The candidate can not replace the party. Would bury the aspirations of government party. There can be no dichotomy between the party and candidate. The party, as a political organization that aims to take power, should be above all. He who does not understand and read the book of John Campmany, "The Effect ZP", a thousand days of the campaign to reach the Moncloa. PRD can return to power. Are taking all the objective conditions for this to happen. But you have to create the subjective conditions, which is essential in politics. Otherwise, Leonel is uploaded in the club at least four years.
The PRD has to hatch. You have to take the game to the street. The candidate has to go all over the country, village by village, house by house, corner by corner. You have to come up with concrete proposals, credible, has to earn the trust of the people to discontent and frustration from becoming popular vote intention. If that happens, the PRD, Miguel Vargas Maldonado of the head, will move back to the National Palace.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

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President Leonel Fernandez says that Dominicans are witnessing a revolution of what will happen in this country in the next 15 years "for" the profound "that await us in that time.
should be asked what you mean by revolution. Should
you know, likewise, how many years remain in power seeks to provide continuity and consistency of his revolution. Humanity has known
revolutions in various categories, which have radically changed economic patterns, political and social.
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels stated that "the history of all hitherto existing societies today is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, master and officers in a word, oppressor and oppressed are faced always maintained a constant struggle, now hidden, and now open, fight always ended with the transformation of society or the collapse of the contending classes "
A revolution thus implies profound changes. A revolution is part of the social dynamics of the constant struggle between good and evil, between the positive and negative, say which is part of the social dialectic.
A revolution means a quantum leap, which allows driving toward the goal of creating a world without oppressors or oppressed, a world at peace, a peace that is possible only when the reasons for the differences between rich human and poor, between whites and blacks, between religious and atheists.
Humanity was a radical change, dramatically, say, when it passed from the primitive to slavery, but the same was true when it abolished slavery and passed the feudal regime that later, centuries later, was swept away by the bourgeois revolutions. History is not linear. But as I said Chilean President Salvador Allende, the processes do not stop. Chilean gorillas could not stop the changes in his country despite the coup of 1973.
says Rodrigo Borja, in his encyclopedia of the political revolution is (...) an axial movement which involves institutional change, not just people in the organization of the State. This means that the revolutionary transformation is not satisfied with the mere substitution of some people by others in the exercise of power -As in the rebellion, but seeks the structural change of social organization. So the revolution, to the extent proposed a sweeping reorganization of the organizational structure of the state, a change of an institutional nature ... "
all know what it involved the 1917 Russian Revolution led by Lenin. We all know which meant the Chinese revolution of 1949 under the direction of the Great Helmsman Mao Tse Tung. We all know the 1959 Cuban Revolution who led the political colossus called Fidel Castro.
For President Fernández, what is a revolution? A play on words of someone who seeks reelection to continue with "more of the same"?
What are the political and ideological revolution of the President?
Where is the revolutionary character of the government program of the President? What political and ideological differences between President Fernandez and the other presidents who have had the Dominican Republic in recent years?
In contrast, Fernandez has been submissive in front of the imperial power and beholden to big domestic and foreign capital. The nation has been less independent and sovereign during his two terms than during other governments. His government got rid of all public companies to create a weak state. His government has indebted the country more than others. His government has not been for the poor, but on the contrary, for the rich. Your government has sponsored corruption, while protecting the corrupt. There is one crucial measure that benefits the bottom. President Fernandez did not change in the corrupt and archaic structure of the state apparatus. Although the LDP leader and founder declared Marxist, although his works, including "Dictatorship with Popular Support" and the very name of the party, the government of President Fernandez did not even have been reformers.
So what speaks revolution? Is it called revolution in a work as the Metro, most Dominicans do not approve? What
President Fernandez called revolution? What insecurity, the rise of drug trafficking, unemployment, bankruptcy of free zone companies, the three tax reforms that have further impoverished the poor, moral and ethical degradation of the political chaos that Queen in transit, breach of the laws, the protection of those who went bankrupt private banks leading the country into bankruptcy? Is it at all that President Fernandez called radical and profound revolution?
I do not see anything else. What else would I want a real revolution, sir President? Do you dare? If so, count me in!