The only things that I can think of are that 1) the envasadoras have just received shipments of gas to sell to the publicos, just in time for the weekend, 2) that the blackouts have shortened out by 20 minutes at a stretch, 3)everyone is trying to figure out how soon they will receive their Hipolito-promised 30% raises, and 4) the guys who REALLY control the tasa are drunk on Presidentes because they just finished calculating how much they are going to make with this latest scam.
The cambios I know are flush with US Dollars lately. I watched a pile of almost US$500k exchange hands, just the other day. Even the spread is down to about 0.75 these days.
No money to pay their bills; a lameduck president who is doing and saying absolutely nothing; a traveling, rambling president-to-be; the good ship La Republica Dominicana on auto-pilot headed straight for the icebergs of doom; and the tasa is DROPPING. Leonel ain't the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, he is going to have his hands FULL of work. Maybe I am drunk, stupid, blind, and hallucinating.
Somebody slap me, please!