In Diario Libre newspaper’s editorial today, 31 March 2014, executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada writes that the great virtue, the great discovery of the Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 is that it has brought to the forefront a reality that many did not want us to see until it was too late, if it is not already too late.
“It is all about political power, that is, to give the capacity to vote in the national elections to people who respond to another nation, even if they have been born here, so that they can influence the Dominican political system,” he writes.
He said that the same thing happens with Dominicans in the United States, with the difference that that system is not affected by foreign influences as ours is.
“That scandal is not linked to humanitarian issues. If you want to see how it works, just propose that those people will not be allowed to vote in the elections or become candidates for legislators to see the reaction,” he writes.
“We are to blame for having allowed the peaceful invasion, for not having instilled Dominican values in so many children of Haitians who were born and live here. We never made them swear for the Dominican flag. They were invisible while they lived in the sugar towns, but 15 years ago this was no longer the case, and nothing was done,” he writes.
He concludes: “Now, as the director of Migration says, ‘some price will have to be paid’ for the errors of the past.”
“But do not wrongly judge the ruling that is not to blame. The decision of our High Court simply took the blindfold away and forces us to act. That is its great merit,” he writes in the editorial.