Discussing anything with you is like trying to wrestle a hedgehog covered in Vaseline. Slippery as hell, and prickly when corralled.
I wasn't asking for a social commentary of how corrupt MY government is, that I know all too well. And my comments, though disagreeable at times, can hardly be deemed so obtuse as to warrant your off-topic, obfuscating rant.
If I need to ask the same question again, I will. And I will rephrase it for the sake of making it easier to answer.
Where do you see the correlation between the Dominican authorities aiding Italian police in capturing this international fugitive and your contention that this is a harbinger of change in regards to ending corruption in the DR?
Try to answer the question with facts, and not with fictitious artist renderings of what you think Santo Domingo will look like in the year 3035 like you did in the Metro thread.
The liaison?s office in charge of operations with INTERPOL in the DR is 100% independent of the internal Police/Judicial system. Only the established mechanisms agreed by all INTERPOL signatory nations are followed. This work is providing the legal amplitude for the internal corruption levels in the DR, to become within legal and authority's reach of any dealings that break the law committed by any member of the gov.
Take the purchase of the Super Tucanos in Brazil or the Marbella case in Spain. Both fall under INTERPOL jurisdiction and legal reach. INTERPOL is more than a multinational fugitive recovery agency. It's developing into a multinational law and order arm with ample resources to investigate and prosecute more kinds of crimes than before.
The reason the units that are assigned to INTERPOL in the DR are so effective, is that they operate in total independency to that of our Judicial and Police organs. They'll only present their final investigation and criminal charges at the end of the operations, both conducted by the liaison officers and members within the units from the DR's institutions.
Before this was not the case and MO for the INTERPOL office in the DR. The first result for the new chain of command and operations, was the removal of crooked officers from both the DR and foreign members.
INTERPOL is being used to conduct investigations in the DR, free from political, judicial or police pressures. Both natives and foreign nationals are no longer in any protective mumbo jumbo of legalities or minefields, which obstructed most investigations/prosecutions here before.
Corruption in the DR was handled just as drug lords did as well. Transferring funds to overseas accounts under the cloak of gov entities and personalities in power/positions. Most of the latest cases have culminated after an investigation was originated beyond the DR's realm of power and control. Once INTERPOL follows the leads within the country (here in the DR), they keep the entire investigation to themselves till conclusion. Later, a request is made from the main prosecution point to send the guilty to face the music and the findings provided un-filtered to the DR's media (as INTERPOL now publishes the final actions/findings in their international press reports).
While the SD Metro was being built, INTERPOL was busy investigating some of the involved multinational companies for any traces of corporate crimes before, during and after the effect. No major or substantiated negativities were found in the dealings/contracts.
Those companies are STILL under the eye of investigators today.
Those are the facts...
