The director of the Diario Libre writes the A. M. column this morning and warns the readers of two dilemmas that are facing the Dominican Republic. The country is at a crossroads. A lack of information immobilizes our limbs and makes our brains work on something that apparently does not have a logical and precise solution. But decisions must be taken. The country must decide in the coming days what to do with the Free Trade Agreement and the International Monetary Fund, in spite of the fact that the basic decisions have already been taken. If truth be said, the Free Trade Agreement was not our fault. For whatever reason, the Central American states decided that they should sign such an agreement with the USA. The DR that has an economy that converges with those in Central America, had to get on the wagon. A lot of people might argue that we could wait and see what happened, but the editorialist says, these are the people that think we are the center of the universe (or, as he calls it, the ‘belly button’). What was going to happen is what we all know: The industrial free zones would relocate, and when we would have wanted to negotiate, the conditions would be different. Then there is the dilemma of the IMF. We have to sign because we need the resources in order to pay what we owe, and still stay in debt, and after signing, traumatized. Tejada says that when the smoke clears, it is possible that very sensitive sectors of the Dominican economy will be in ruins, and with them, half of the country. There was never a better time for the saying that says: “Trabajando para el ingles” (working for nothing).