Vice President Jaime David Fernández Mirabal proposed yesterday that the political parties cease their verbal sparring during the holiday season. He pointed out that traditionally the parties have informally observed a political truce during the holidays. He deplored some of the name-calling prevalent in many recent public statements by politicos. Continue down that road, he warned, and the DR’s political parties could lose the confidence of the people as Venezuela’s parties did. Last weekend an independent, Hugo Chávez, won handily in Venezuela after 40 years of two-party domination of Venezuelan politics.
