I tend to agree that those 'in power' regardless of party affiliation, display a level of corruption which is totally self-defeating and seems to have gone unchanged from the days of the colonisers who were deliberately underpaid by Spain with the expectation that they would survive or even thrive by what they could make for themselves from this country whilst they were governing it. (Note: this is NOT saying all Dominicans are corrupt. Just those 'in power'). I think some of the smaller political parties are showing promise but they have insufficient following to get elected and insufficient resources to back a campaign.
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Originally Posted by RonS
It is just sad that the hope that things would be different under this President has not become real, and it is even more sad, that the Dominican people have not exercised political will and empowered themselves to insist that thier political leaders change this 'culture' of corruption.
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Maybe this is in the nature of 'top down' political organisation? Now maybe if we had 'bottom up' political organisation things would change........? And maybe, given the original topic & not wanting to stray too far from it, I should stop at this point!
The gallup poll quoted by Nals was I believe carried out
before the Santiago tragedy & somehow I think one carried out now (despite 'short memory syndrome') would be different. What I'm picking up, certainly in Puerto Plata, is a level of anger about the Tavera opening which seems to be directed against the President himself and not his appointees.