Hoy newspaper has a very interesting column called “Que se dice” (What’s being said). On Saturday, the columnist shared some comments by Robert Zoellick, the United States Trade Representative, who tied in clean, free elections with the signing of any trade agreement with the US. Regina Vargo, the lead negotiator on the US team that spent four days in Santo Domingo, cited the clean elections as well as the signing of the IMF accords as prerequisites needed to re-establish confidence in the economic sector and an eventual recovery. Santiago Murray, the special envoy sent from the OAS, went even further when he stated at the headquarters of the Central Electoral Board that the organization of the elections for next 16 May are being carried out in an “agitated climate” that merits a long-range observation. The columnist says: “Either these people know something that we don’t, or what’s happening is what usually happens to cuckolds – they are the last ones to find out what everyone has been talking about for ages.”