El Caribe’s headline story tells of Rafael “Fello” Subervi’s solidarity with PRD leader Hatuey Decamps, and how this loyal stance will divide the party even further. Subervi was categorical as he told reporters that Decamps was still party president, in spite of the proclamation at last Saturday’s PRD convention that removed him from the post. Subervi’s stand gives even more significance to which side Milagros Ortiz Bosch will decide to take in the political power struggle. A total of 28 legislators from the Chamber of Deputies have reaffirmed their loyalty to Decamps as party president. Not since Juan Bosch decided to break with the PRD and form the PLD has there been such a crisis in the Dominican Republic’s largest political party. At that time, in 1973, Bosch took control of the PRD National Headquarters and painted it purple and yellow – the colors of the newly-born Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana (PLD). Over the weekend, Felipa Gomez, the fire-breathing PRD deputy from Herrera, entrenched herself at the PRD headquarters, where she remains, bolstered by cries of support from many party officials. Yesterday, as both Subervi and Decamps awaited a decision from Ortiz Bosch, and the possibility of an irreparable split in the party loomed even larger, Decamps answered his critics from the PPH faction who had accused him of kidnapping the headquarters by saying, “Kidnapping is what Hipolito wants to do with a party that has always been against re-election.”