I was thinking about corruption. It seems to be everywhere. The recent death of Miguel Cocco the head of Customs brought about crocodile tears and tales of how strict he was. Well, the guy was a old Communist, of the hard line variety, but he was just as "honest" as the Russian Communist leaders were...or the Chinese are (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/world/africa/22namibia.html?th&emc=th)
People forget (unless you are a fan of Harold's political cartoons in Diario Libre) that the main body of PLD leaders were formed, politically, as marxists-leninists, in those little "reader circles" where they were indoctrinated with dialectic philosophy (up to a point) and Bosch's idea of society. I have wondered about the assassination attempt last week of Cocco's right hand man, and I have come to this conclusion: he was on the take --for himself and most probably for his boss, too--and had received some heavy money to "do a job" that would net someone a lot of money, but the death of Cocco and his sudden dismissal thereafter (amid oh so many phrases of his fine work) might have put the whole thing on hold. Thus the gunfire.
In this country we are going to see, tomorrow, the President, face the media directors over lunch at the Presidential Palace, where he will try to explain away the growing tide of sentiment regarding the oh-so-obvious corruption in government (the CB payrolls, Sun Land, INDRHI, CDEEE, PRA, etc etc) and the government's inability to pay its bills and the resulting blackouts.
He will use all of his Doctorate in Spin (Spin doctor, get it???) and dialectical philosophy to put a favorable light on things...but "le change, plus le change, c'est le meme chose,,,"
Some of the media will receive the President's words as if they were Manna from on High. Others will dismiss them and others will smirk and say, "Yeah, right, whatever."
Wake me up in twenty years and tell me if anything has changed in the 7th PLD administration...
HB
People forget (unless you are a fan of Harold's political cartoons in Diario Libre) that the main body of PLD leaders were formed, politically, as marxists-leninists, in those little "reader circles" where they were indoctrinated with dialectic philosophy (up to a point) and Bosch's idea of society. I have wondered about the assassination attempt last week of Cocco's right hand man, and I have come to this conclusion: he was on the take --for himself and most probably for his boss, too--and had received some heavy money to "do a job" that would net someone a lot of money, but the death of Cocco and his sudden dismissal thereafter (amid oh so many phrases of his fine work) might have put the whole thing on hold. Thus the gunfire.
In this country we are going to see, tomorrow, the President, face the media directors over lunch at the Presidential Palace, where he will try to explain away the growing tide of sentiment regarding the oh-so-obvious corruption in government (the CB payrolls, Sun Land, INDRHI, CDEEE, PRA, etc etc) and the government's inability to pay its bills and the resulting blackouts.
He will use all of his Doctorate in Spin (Spin doctor, get it???) and dialectical philosophy to put a favorable light on things...but "le change, plus le change, c'est le meme chose,,,"
Some of the media will receive the President's words as if they were Manna from on High. Others will dismiss them and others will smirk and say, "Yeah, right, whatever."
Wake me up in twenty years and tell me if anything has changed in the 7th PLD administration...
HB