When asked by the press to comment on the revoking of the visa of presidential legal advisor Guido Gomez Mazara for supposed drug links, Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez recommended President Mejia check those who accompany him. He expressed his indignation after the scandal caused by the revoking of the personal visa of Guido Gomez Mazara. He commented on other named government officers that have been killed or involved in criminal acts.
Specifically regarding Gomez Mazara, the Cardinal said it is up to the latter to decide whether he resigns or not. “The government needs to question itself if it should keep at high echelons of power a person who not for nothing has had his visa revoked. I think, without doubt, that this is something that calls for concern,” he stated.
But the Cardinal also blasted past governments. “All have conducted themselves in the same way, this and the past government. Nothing has been done to fight corruption.”
He said that beyond an economic or political crisis, the country is undergoing a moral crisis.
The Cardinal spoke during the graduation of 350 new professionals at the Universidad Nordestana de San Francisco de Macoris. During the graduation, he received a honoris causa degree.