A member of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), Rafael Cruz, complained to reporters that the PLD party tends to cultivate just what party founder Juan Bosch criticized during the Trujillo regime: a cult of personalization when roads and buildings were named in honor of the dictator and his family. Cruz was referring to the recently passed resolution by the Santiago city council that declares the new parklands built on the old airport grounds to be named the Juan Bosch Park Drive instead of the Santiago Central Park.
Councilman Cruz recalled that the name of Santiago Central Park was established by means of presidential decree 126-01, that created the Santiago Central Park Board as the agency charged with planning and administering the area of the old Cibao airport in order to create an park area that would serve as an ecological refuge for the city.
Rafael “Papito” Cruz said that Juan Bosch fought to create a democratic party and therefore the members of this party should not be promoting the placement of Juan Bosch’s name on everything. He also noted that a city council resolution to name the park Juan Bosch had to be approved by the National Congress. The ruling PLD is majority in Congress.
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El Nacional/
8 February 2018
