The governor of the Patronato del Faro a Colón, a long time PRSC party leader, has instructed those resident in the area near the monument to Columbus not to allow the placing of political propaganda on the walls, plazas or in the parking areas surrounding the Faro. Morales Troncoso has also been very vocal about the political posters and wall signs in the colonial city. “We have endeavored to keep the first city of the Americas clean,” he said, criticizing what he called the shameful accumulation of refuse and the political advertisements that have been placed on buildings, fences and other places.
He said he has spoken to the politicians and requested that the practice be discontinued and suggesting that they use more modern methods of political publicity such as the press, television and radio. “The truth is that one is tired, even fed up with this dreadful propaganda that makes our beautiful city ugly,” he said. He emphasized that while President Balaguer has tried to make Santo Domingo the most modern city in the Americas, the new generation politicians are doing nothing but making it dirty.