Giving RD$500 million to the Consejo Estatal del Azúcar (CEA) will not solve its financial situation. Businessman Andrés Dauhajre and economists Jaime Aristy Escuder and Alfonso Abreu said that the only solution for the CEA is for it to be sold off to the private sector. They maintain that the CEA is a never ending financial drain and believe that simple injections of money will not save it.