The Comisión Nacional de Espectáculos Públicos y Radiofonía (CNEPR), the national commission of public entertainment, suspended broadcaster Alvaro Arvelo from speaking on radio or TV for having offended and denigrating the figure of founding father Juan Pablo Duarte in Resolution 002-17. The action was taken after the Duarte Institute protested Arvelo’s remarks.
The commission ruled that Arvelo used expressions contrary to morals and good customs when referring to Duarte when hosting historian Roberto Cassá, of the National Archives, on the Gobierno de la Mañana talk show on Z101.
In commenting on Duarte, Arvelo had called the founding father a “coward”, “who did not have character nor balls” and had preferred exile for 20 years in Venezuela, rather to fight in the restoration wars. He also called Duarte irresponsible, depressive and homosexual for having abandoned his ailing money and his family in the Dominican Republic.
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11 October 2017
