No wonder the DR can't go ahead!
I voted for Hipolito Mejia when he won, but that was my biggest mistake, that man destroyed the DR economically when he was president.
Hipolito should stay in his "rancheta" raising chickens.
We make mistake in life, I did vote for Leonel in 1996 and he started growing the macro-economia and making poor people more poor as his governments are to please rich people and "Fondo monetario international" interest.
The first thing they did was to cut off all kind of help Balaguer was issuing to people, remember the famos "Botellas"... $ 200. / 300. and other small amount in order to help the very low class of DR. Then PLD have converted Botellas in Botellones creating 300 new subsecretarios de Estado making 90,000. pesos / month, redirecting theses founds that was helping the struggling dominican class toward bank accounts in other countries.
Sh**t and people have so bad memory they vote Leonel again in 2004.
Macro-economia, never heard this expression before Leonel got in office in 1996.
JJ