Writing in Diario Libre today, Friday 11 October, editorialist Adriano Miguel Tejada describes the weaknesses in the civil registry, where thousands of Dominican IDs have been issued fraudulently. He was referring to comments by Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario about the “raid on the civil registry” regarding the many cases of fraud detected there. “Everyone knows that it is the case,” writes Tejada. “Every time a criminal foreigner is caught, he is found to have a Dominican cedula and passport. We speak of criminals of all nationalities who take advantage of the naivety of the country and the profiteering of government officials, as well as the proverbial impunity that characterizes life in this country,” he writes. “Haitians do not escape from these temptations, as Roberto Rosario Marquez, president of the JCE has made it known.”
He comments: “Of course, the fault is ours that until now we have not known how to install the efficient controls, but that does not mean that whoever commits fraud is blameless.”
Tejada comments that the Constitutional Court ruling that focuses on Haitian “matters” has not been free of intellectual “raids” aimed at creating confusion about their scope. He says he is not referring to those who criticize the judgment with legitimate and reasonable arguments, but rather those who want to create a case where there is not one. He comments that the focus on this being a case of statelessness for Haitians is impossible because of the writing in the Haitian Constitution and the number of people affected. “What the assailants fear is that the generous subsidies that they receive from abroad may have come to an end,” he writes. “That is why they have to be unmasked.”
www.diariolibre.com/opinion/2013/10/11/i406110_jugosas-falacias.html