The oftentimes acerbic column in Hoy newspaper titled ?Que se dice? (What?s being said) points its pen at Superintendent of Electricity George Reynoso, who has been suspiciously absent from the commotion surrounding the interminable blackouts that the country is experiencing. The column says that a lot of people are noting the fact that in the middle of the devastating electricity crisis that has the country, in Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez? words, ?humiliated in darkness,? there is a conspicuous absence: that of George Reynoso.
Reynoso has been completely missing form the unending discussions about who owes who in the tangled web of the electric sector?s woes, says the columnist. He has left all public commentaries to Ramon Cruz, who is better capable, apparently, to battle the incessant attacks of the media, while Reynoso seeks refuge in a silence to which he has no right because of the job title he carries and the high salary his post entails.
Another topic that received the attention of the writer was the fact that the Presidential Palace experienced a brief blackout. He tells his readers that a celebration is in order since the Presidential Palace has had the opportunity to taste, if only for a few hours, a spoonful of the same medicine that the whole country, nearing a nervous collapse because of the blackouts, is taking. The Presidential Palace?s power outage was thanks to a breakdown in the privileged circuit that services the seat of power. The writer says here that what a lot of people are wondering if it would not make more sense to have some other institution ? a hospital, for example ? receive the benefit of this advantaged supply of electricity, especially when one considers that no one has been to the Presidential Palace to govern since last 16 May (election day).