2005News

Promises, promises

The government and the people will defeat crime, at least according to President Fernandez. The President, speaking in the hotbed of juvenile delinquency, Capotillo, said that together with the public’s help, he and his government would fight delinquency and crime. He told the people of Capotillo that he would push for educational solutions and several public works projects that are needed in the barrio. With the chief executive’s brief talk, the “Plan for Democratic Security” was officially launched in the Capotillo barrio. Citing Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fernandez repeated the famous phrase “that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” as he promised to do everything “that has to be done, with the community’s involvement, to bring morality, peace and security to the barrio.” As reported in Hoy, the President emphasized the need for a National Police force that had the confidence of the people and that is in no way associated with the criminals. The big news from Fernandez was that in October this year a new episode of Miami Vice will be filmed in Capotillo, and he said that “this will oblige Capotillo to become a model barrio, a barrio through which other barrios can be modeled.”