Looks like Jan got his wish, lots of publicity. Bottom line, most of the new he publishes is true.
The DR needs to learn how to deal with negativity, rather then blame someone else or try and sweep it under the carpet.
What other country in the world has an open door policy to Haitians on the face of the earth?????
It's obvious he has an agenda, but that doesn't detract from the fact that most of the stories are true.
When people get screwed on real estate deals or bitten by corruption and they feel they have no recourse, then sometimes they do whatever it takes to get heard.
In this case, the guy created a website that is having an impact, or so it would seem when you get the likes of Eddy Martinez commenting about it. I was very surprised about that, personally I wouldn't have given the site the time of day.
The DR has to learn to deal with this type of negative press or agenda, it's not unique to the DR. The problem is they take the "deflection" or "no es mi culpa" approach, instead of actually owning up and addressing the underlying issues.
Bottom line... Instead of crying, blaming other people or saying they are worse than us.
Step up, do the right thing, show the world you are "actually" serious about corruption, putting things right etc. Then you will have something to say and show when confronted with negative press.
Insanity = Doing what you have always done and expecting a different outcome.
PICHARDO, thanks for proving my point
Blame, deflect, someone else etc. Instead of... This is what we are doing, these are examples of change etc.
It's true within the context they were taken from, not how they were represented as a whole Robert!
No country in the Caribbean (including Haiti) has faced more negative campaigns than the DR.
The price of sugar is a one sided history and take on the Haitian issue of the country and island, poorly developed as one sided and myopic on the real issues behind the problem.
This guy has an agenda, after being deported for criminal activity in the DR....
It's one thing to place an article about 100 homicides over the course of several months in the entire DR, quite the other to represented like a genocide is going full blast Mexico style all around the country.
Needless to say it also fails to show how those foreigners got to become victims in the DR, as you and I know, a lot of them happened to be in the wrong side of the Law and hanging with the wrong crowd...
There's negativity all around in the Net about the DR, we deal just fine with all of it. As soon as people come to the DR and see with their two eyes and experience first hand that Haitians are not enslaved with shotgun totting guards keeping them from escaping the surgarcane fields. That Dominicans are in the majority mixed and quite not blue eyed. That if anything, we're a very welcoming and friendly people. No matter the negative campaigns and ills, the true is overwhelmingly clear!
What other country in the world has an open door policy to Haitians on the face of the earth?????
So if I take all the homicides, drug arrests, rapes, foreign people that got killed, etc... from a span of my choosing out of all the events that take place in the USA, UK or Canada and paste them as a string of what's taking place in each of those countries to reflect all hell broke down in those places is equally insanity for the same citizens to point out the obvious?????
They are just wrong for pointing out the rational and plain to see outlandish presentation of their country and people as put above?
Deflect? My, my, my! But when? When I DON'T accept labels or BS as given facts for the DR and fellow Dominicans, that's not accepting fault?
Robert, please! Pretty please!
Since you already have a foot in the peace eden that's Colombia use the DR1 forum to open the eyes of all foreigners and Dominicans alike to see the DR for what we DON'T want to see it or accept it at face value as you want to portrait as above referenced by you...
Just be careful on your next walk around Bogota and don't get blow out to pieces by a car-bomb, which is the usual in the DR...
So if I take all the homicides, drug arrests, rapes, foreign people that got killed, etc... from a span of my choosing out of all the events that take place in the....
Yes Chip you are right there is nothing new for me in this site. that's is a re-posting site of news and videos that I have already seen on youtube.It is interesting the owner of "Dominican Watchdog" was deported from the country because of supposed illegal business practices but it appears he is only re-posting printed articles as opposed to editorial commentary.
The Dominican governmental official interviewed says they are monitoring the webpage but "the government" honestly feels it has little impact because people would come here and make there own assessment. I would say that maybe this was the case 20 years ago or more but this is the technology age and any half wit can do a great deal of due diligence with google; and part of that would be searching news and forums about a country or area of a country. Maybe the gov't officials are naive in this regard or maybe they are just too busy trying to rob the coffers before their term ends to pay attention to anything else.
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If the DR wouldn't allow Haitians to enter the country then nothing would be build in the DR!!!!
Pichardo:
You just quoted Robert about blame and deflect and deny it...then you point to Colombia.....which is a perfect example of deflection.
You may not like the messenger of the website, but you have done nothing to discredit the message except to say that it may not accurately portray the entire country and that the individual may have some agenda.
Well Transparency International happens to agree with at least part of his premise of the deep rooted corruption in the DR. But, you can take solace in the fact that there are other worse Latin American countries (and we know you love to tell us how it is worse elsewhere)....Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
To say that his site is a stringing together of totally unrelated and isolated incidents of a disgruntled deportee is to ignore that corruption is more ingrained than you care to admit.....and the first step in dealing with a problem......is to admit there is one.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
I'm well are of the dangers on what goes on around the world. I have lived and worked all around the planet and continue to travel all over it.
So...
Instead of talking about somewhere else, talk about the Dominican Republic.
Instead of saying, you cannot prove we are corrupt, prove why you're not corrupt.
Instead of blaming someone else, take responsibility for your actions.
Etc etc etc....