And to think that Julian Assange's goal was to harm the Yankees. Wikileaks is the biggest embarrassment spread like a virus to 190 nations in the world, or at least those with American ambassadors. So far, not one single cable has been contested credibly. The US ambassadors have proven to be the voice of the people. It's not like we didn't know of these things. It's just that just like that great Triple Crown horse's name said.."Affirmed"
There's no need for proof. What the "Embassy" says is tacit law. "El Pataleo"(the kicking and screaming) is just Hollywood. I'm surprised nothing has popped up about ex-police chief Guzman Fermin, who beginning as a colonel chief of Najayo prison made his "August"(an allusion to the 16th. where people hit the jackpot with a presidential appointment) Najayo is like the New York Dominican Consulate..a gold mine. He then went along to get the jewel of corruption, the Leopoldo Navarro Palace where the 10% is for minions. Subero Isa has not mentioned the 7th. Circuit Court judge that has handled all the big league cases.
Hertell could not have been misunderstood. He speaks Spanish more fluently and with better diction than Subero Isa, who runs only second to Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado as the worst speaker in DR.
What bothers me, but does not surprise me, is Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez' defense of these weasels. Defending our politicians, judges and military because of his extreme nationalism is only enhancing his reputation as a loose cannon. That is, of course, if the Cardinal himself doesn't end up being wikileaked himself. The Catholic church is not inmune to corruption.
As for Hertell, he was a multimillionare before he became ambassador. He is a businessman before a diplomat. He did his job well. He mingled with Dominicans and became "platanized".
I also find it disgusting that government officials, the Dominican press(leftist oriented and extremely anti-American)and Dominicans in general would call diplomatic cables addressed confidentially to the State Department foreign interference and colonialism. But Dominicans line up ,without showing any pride and decorum,like ducks at the Maximo Gomez Avenue US Embassy/Consulate gates begging on their knees like refugges for a B-1 tourist visa, or a green card. They pay as much as $100 pesos to "buscones" to safekeep their cell phones. They suffer heat, hunger, distress and pushing in line just to get in!
Yet, just like our officials, when they have their tails between their rear end, they call the IMF, or ask for an appointment to see Obama, begging for loans or selling sovereign bonds to Wall St.
Never bite the hand that feeds you.
