Answer to readdressed political questions
To: The moderator
From: Ricardo Tejeda, the individual
Sub. Answers to questions that were originally asked to Mr. Rick-Pixx-Snyder, but failed to answer and is now putting those question before me:
You asked why is that people usually aren't arrested for breaking the laws in this country, Dom. Rep..
First of all, allow me to clarify the fact that the original question was referring to corrupted government and elected officials, not to the average Joe.
There are many reasons why, many of those who have stolen money from the public funds and banks do not get arrested, thats because the key players are systematically involved. Let me give you an example, when the 2.5 billions dollars were stolen from Bani-tel (I am not sure about the spelling of the Bank's name ) many in key government positions were given a share of the money in the form of expensive gifts, like Jipetas, thus neutralizing the judicial system. And to the best of my knowledge nobody got arrested, and eventually the Dominicans tax payers paid for the 2.5 billions.
The other fact is that Dominicans have a stereotype about the government, that comes from the dictatorship's mafia of Trujillo, were they think the government is a source where you go to participate to get rich.
If the entire system is corrupt, like Jesus said "EL QUE ESTE LIBRE DE PECADO, QUE TIRE LA PRIMERA PIEDRA". This is why the Dominican Municipal League doesn't comply with turning their account sheet from the 115 municipalities, and law# 82-78 is never comply with and the laws are never enforced to make them comply because the system is, like a "mafia", corrupted and nobody in or out of the government is doing something about it.
As many of you already know the governors of the Dominican's provinces are appointed by the central government, currently under the best yet PLD administration. Basically all the laws in the books can be enforced if the central government makes it a priority to pursuit enforcement of anti-corruption legislature and minimize the chronic level of corruption, it can but it doesn't, is as simply as that.
Personally I am not blaming anybody. However, it is my impression that the chronic level of corruption is ignored, and systemically tolerated by the executive and judicial branches of the government and this is do to the lack of action or willingness by the current administration to even talk about it.
The Dominican Republic's provinces do not have the independence from the central government as do the United States of the American, meaning, that the president of the Dominican Republic can do more about corruption, "within the government" if it was something he wanted to do. There is no comparison of blaming the federal U.S government (George W. Bush) for corruption of the budgetary public funds to the current Dominican government since in the U.S.A the governors are elected not appointed.
These are some answers to my original question readdressed back to the original source.
Last edited by rtejeda; 06-23-2006 at 01:41 PM..
|
(10)
