Has anyone bother to ask?

Has anyone bother to ask Leonel Fernandez why most of the cocaine air traffic being dropped in our territory from Venezuela has not been questioned? It is no secret that Leonel Fernandez is the secret new member of ALBA and answers to Chavez' orders. I am convinced that the continuous air droppings have the blessing of the Dominican government and perhaps as much of the planning.
Leonel's alliance with Raul Chavez is no coincidence. His recent sales of Dominican owned industries, land and other properties to Chavez is only the beginning. The recent failed attempt by Leonel to host Honduras' new president-elect Lobos and self-proclaimed clown Zelaya for a deal to end the Honduras crisis was a trap set up by Chavez using Leonel as his messenger. There has been much talk about this as well as local support by the usual socialist mouthpieces for this to happen. But the Obama administration knowing full well that it was a trap for Lobos prevented this deceiptful meeting by warning of its consequences.
Chavez' influence has reached now the powerful drug Czar Vincho Castillo, a man who years ago was the anti-drug mouthpiece in DR and now is one of Chavez' greatest supporters. Vincho knows the extent to which DR is committed to the cocaine traffic and where the roots are. But he is now detouring our local investigations with fake warnings about the source and destination of new air drops and conspiracies. He knows the PLD party, his own party's ally is the recipient of most of the drug dealers participating in our next congresional elections. Yet, nothing is being done about it. Chavez himself, thru his foreign minister, himself the speaker for the Venezuelan cartels is selecting and appointing many of the candidates running for election.
Leonel has appointed his own foreing minister to Chavez, Miguel Mejia. Mejia along with Narciso Isa Conde are FARC supporters and are involved with all the decisions made by Chavez in DR. Isa Conde as has been widely known, is FARC's Dominican representative ideological trainer and Ecuador president Rafael Correa's intelligence czar abroad.
How long are the Americans going to allow this drug infested alliance that uses left wing ideology as a pretext for higher business deals. Why are we getting closer and closer to an alliance with Iran thru Dubai's princes? Is there still any doubt? The new Leonel/Khadafy/Zelaya/Chavez/Ammadinejah alliance is no accident.

Pichardo, now that you have become the DR government's PR agent and publicists perhaps you ought to continue explaining why is it that if Leonel Fernandez and Hugo Chavez are such good friends and associates and Chavez would want nothing better than to make Leonel look good, as he has done with having him represent him de-facto as his mouthpiece for the Honduras situation, Chavez doesn't do the same by controlling the air drops from Venezuela. It has been public information, and it appeared in several newspapers here, that 90% of the flight traces for drug shipments come from Venezuela. Our local authorities announce almost on a daily basis that these traces are from Venezuela. Either Chavez has no control of his air space(something unthinkable knowing his dictatorship controls everything), or he is playing a double agent for Leonel(making him look good somewhere so he can destroy him somewhere else)or Chavez has no control over his crime ridden failed state.
Leonel Fernandez appoints all the local drug authorities, including Vincho Castillo. He knows full well who controls our airports security. The recent shipment interdicted at one of DR's VIP airport hangars where a private Venezuelan airplane was hiding drug traffickers and a cocaine loot has all the imprints of a government coverup. Where is all the drug that is supposedly being burned going to? When was the last time a drug burn was done publicly? Where is the Paya drug?
While we get bombarded on a daily basis with government drug interdictions, most of these are small caches compared to what is being bombarded from Venezuela. The Tucanos are nothing more than government propaganda tools. The problem is not the Tucanos. The problem is Chavez and Leonel. They have done nothing to bring this in the open. While Leonel's government has not been shy to blame publicly United States hunger for illicit drugs, he has never addressed the issue of his ideological partner Chavez' influence in the drug business and his lack of intervention in the illegal flights and drug traffic from Venezuelan airports, strips and ports.
I ask again? Why is this issue not been addressed? Why is it that Leonel's government is so shy about mentioning the "V" word for Venezuela everytime an airplane gets caught redhanded full of "V"? We all know they come from Venezuela. Who doesn't? If you are one of them you are ill-informed.
How many major drug arrests and convictions have taken place in DR? Outside of Quirino Paulino, whose arrest and extradition was the work of the DEA and the Bush administration, no other major case has been broken. Lots of raids and public relations, but few real arrests and convictions.
Today the questions remain as to how Jose Figueroa Agosto and Sobeida escaped the arms of our law enforcement people without government involvement and support. It was clear from the beginning that this was a major case. They had the entire gang under surveillance and control...then they all disappear? What more proof do you want?
Former president Juan Bosch was not only a socialist. He was a communist. His books, writings and actions as president left no doubt. His political theory of Dictatorship with Popular Support is no different than Hugo Chavez' outdated Bolivarian Revolution, and it was as close to the Communist Manifesto as anything ever written by a Latin American politician. It is no accident either that Bosch appointed Leonel Fernandez as his successor, when he named him his VP candidate over more experienced and proven politicians. Leonel, like Bosch hides under the democratic banner, but in reality he is no democrat. Leonel has created a political system in DR. The new system is to create a one-party system of cadres who will legally take over every elected office in the country to allow him to govern until he dies. The PLD party is now packed with people involved in drug trafficking and within a few years unless you are a capo you will not be able to run for office.
People inside the party are trying to do something about this. But they're being silenced. There are no current investigations, drug testing or inquiries about where these candidates are getting their financing.
While people like me have to justify every peso and dollar we deposit in the legal banking system or investments made with certificates of deposits, these candidates are financing their campaign with laundered money. There just isn't any probability that all this money is from legal activities. The PLD party knows it. But they can't do anything. At least those who do it within the bylaws of the party.
With respect to foreign policy, the new wave is to justify relationships with dictatorial and terrorist governments like Iran and Lybia by saying that governments should open up their opportunities for business and diplomatic relations with all peoples of the earth. That's fine and dandy. Except that there is a double standard used by people like Leonel and Chavez. While they call Honduras President Micheletti a dictator, violator of human rights and "golpista", they embrace Ammadinejah, better known by his compatriots as "el dictador". Here is a man who is the major threat to peace in the world, a dictator who stole an election and now oppresses his people, the press and all those who oppose him. They embrace Moamar Khadafy, a dictator for life, who has now appointed his son as eternal heir to his throne, and a self-admitted criminal who ordered the shooting down of a civilian airplane. Leonel is opening embassies in the most corrupted and dictatorial governments in Africa. Yet he wants to bring down Honduras to its knees by Chavez' orders.
Or does anyone really believe Leonel is doing this on his own. My question would be why? Why so enamored with this helpless cause? He knows damn well that eventually every country in the world will have to recognize Honduras newly elected government. Why the charade? No other Latin president has insisted so much on this issue to the point of going to the Non-aligned countries conference to represent Hugo Chavez' plan. Note that Chavez kept very quietly. He let Leonel do his work for him. Dominicans have nothing in common with these non-aligned nations. Why were we there? Why Khadafy? I proposed one possible reason months ago. That was that Leonel was himself afraid of a coup and the Dominican young military officers disgust with the present system. He needed to make a case for his own hide. While a coup here is not probable now, the roots and reasons for one have now been established with Honduras' precedent. If there is one government with high possibilities of future Hondurases, we are not far away. So is Bolivia, Ecuador , Nicaragua and yes, Venezuela. And I believe strongly that the Honduras coup was not only legal, but justified under the current undemocratic rule of most Latin Presidents. We are no exception.
I ask again. Why is Vincho Castillo, a man who all his life has been the most proliferate anti-drug spokesperson in DR now a friend an ally of Hugo Chavez?. Or has anyone here missed all the accolades Vincho Castillo throws on a regular basis for Hugo? How is it that the man who chased Jose Francisco Pena Gomez while he was alive with the conviction that Pena Gomez was responsible for the drug business in DR is now a strong supporter of the biggest narco state in Latin America?
If anyone in DR knows the illegal drug business, who is in it and how is run, it's Vincho Castillo. He is the drug czar and has been for many governments here. I ask Vincho...why don't you ever question Venezuela's official airline "Venezuelan Cocaine Air Drop Airline". Where does Venezuela get all these airplanes flying over Dominican sky without interdiction here or in Venezuela? If it were not for the DEA we would have never known about 90% of the interdictions here. And there is nothing the DR government can do but make them public after being uncovered by the Americans.
But left on our own, we would have the Dominican skies covering the sun flying cocaine from Venezuela.
And I am sick and tired of hearing the same old excuse that the Americans buy and consume the drugs, therefore it is their problem. Please spare me apologists! WE ARE CONSUMERS TOO!! and big ones. Every corner of every barrio and every residential neighborhood is infested with drugs. So is Russia, so is Venezuela's Caracas the crime capital of Latin America. So is Brazil. So is Mexico. Name one nation without drug consumption if you dare?
The problem is we want to hide the sun with one finger. We want proof of everything, when the proof is there. But the only one who has no proof of anything is Leonel's government, a government with a penchant for denouncing crimes, conspiracies and illegal activities on a daily basis, but refuses to give the names of the people involved. When was the last time you heard the Dominican Customs office telling the names of companies and people who introduce illegal products and substances thru our ports? Hundreds of cargo ships come in with smuggling and those interdicted always lack a name. Only the crime is mentioned. The names? Never. So why are you asking me for proof when the proof is there. Or what planet are you on?