Investigative journalist Nuria Piera asks the question that has been on many minds. What has happened to the civic movement Green March that so successfully had mobilized all classes to call for an end to government corruption impunity?
Movement leading member, former deputy Guadalupe Valdez says that the Marcha Verde is in a planning phase. Nevertheless, the analysis by Nuria Piera investigative team says the strong civic movement has fizzled out as the elections get closer. It says politician involvement, sectarianism and lengthy assemblies in which no consensus was reached have dampened the enthusiasm of followers. The last straw was when speeches were directed to motivate the resignation of President Danilo Medina.
The Medina administration covertly was concerned but chose to openly ignore and downplay the spontaneous marching of hundreds of thousands of people who had paid for their green shirts and marched on main avenues in an organized manner.
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10 June 2019