Neither of the regular cartoon characters appears in today’s popular Diario Libre cartoon, which instead features a grotesque figure with signs all around it to explain its features. Titled “What We Dominicans Will Be In 40 Years,” the projection into the future envisions Dominicans with huge eyes to better see in the dark. Of course, Dominicans will all speak English by then, having become “yes men”. Other special features include sharp, pointy teeth acquired from eating raw meat, in the absence of cooking gas. People will be very skinny, because – just imagine – a chicken will cost RD$15,000! The future Dominican will sport excessively large feet since there is no gasoline and everyone walks. We will be bald, as well, having lost all our hair from scratching our heads so often, and have teeny, tiny ears as the political campaigning will have screwed up our hearing. The average Dominican will move around completely naked so that the thieves may see they have nothing to steal. And, since there is no water, everyone will be constipated and as a result: hemorrhoids! The cartoonist finishes by saying: “But we will be happy…we will have learnt that politicians are worthless!”