DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Abinader administration spends billions to get its propaganda out through the media. But at the same time the President nor top officials have been available for questioning by journalists.

Benjamin Morales, managing editor of Diario Libre, complains about the anti-democratic practices of the Abinader administration in its dealings with the press. The leading newspaper criticizes the current communication policies of the Abinader administration. Morales writes the world is filling up with governments and government officials who understand they should not be held accountable or be subject to public scrutiny. 

“It must put an end to the bad habit of holding events in which questions are not allowed, of sending requests for documentation to the cumbersome system of public access to information, of responding to specific requests for reaction in a public press release or of...