The Fernandez administration has plans to centralize all government communication with the press and public, according to presidential spokesman Roberto Rodriguez Marchena. The information agencies of the new government are Direccion de Informacion, Analysis y Programacion de Estrategia (Carlos Dore); Direccion de Informacion y Prensa de la Presidencia (Rafael Nunez) and the Centro de Informacion Gubernamental. Rodriguez said that barring an emergency, the only government delegate to the press would be himself. This has not been the case so far: While President Fernandez has not been readily available to the press, there has been no scarcity of press interviews with his cabinet officers.
El Caribe comments today that the announcement comes shortly after Congress passed a freedom of information law that establishes the government’s obligation to provide information on its actions to the public upon request by citizens.