Former governor of the Central Bank and Dominican ambassador in Washington, D.C., Bernardo Vega has remarked finding it strange that the generous propaganda machine of the Medina administration has not spread the positive remarks US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made to local efforts to fight administrative corruption. Efforts in the DR were compared to the cases of Guatemala, Peru and Brazil, where concrete actions have been taken to prosecute those participating in Odebrecht corrupt acts.
Vega asks out loud if Tillerson knows something that Dominicans don’t know. In the DR the only development is a non-development in the most pressing corruption scandal, that of Odebrecht. Last week a Dominican court granted the Attorney General Office four more months to present the case against 14 Dominicans accused of participating in the US$92 million Odebrecht bribe scandal. The 14 Dominicans were released from time in jail with privileged pre-trial concessions.
In another recent commentary, Vega recommends the Dominican government desist from its request for a seat on the United Nations Security Council citing the difficult conflicts in the horizon do not bode well for the nation’s own interests.
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14 February 2018
