Participación Ciudadana in a paid advertisement in the newspaper on 29 February demanded that the Cardinal present the proof of his statement, which they considered, by the tone in which it was made, to be bordering on the slanderous. The principal members of Participación Ciudadana are Isidoro Santana, Federico Bonnelly, Josefina Padilla, Pedro Catrain, Gustavo González, Mariana Moreno, Doroteo A. Rodríguez, Somnia Vargas, Miguel Ceara Hatton, Marcos Villamán, Rafael Sang Ben, Juan Bolívar Díaz, Ada Wiscovitch, Antonio Isa Conde, Carmen A. Cedeño, and Isis Duarte.