Diario Libre executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada in the newspaper’s editorial on 11 February 2019 observes similarities between Stevenson’s Gothic novel’s two antagonistic characters (the good Dr. Jekyll and the evil Mr. Hyde) in the Medina cabinet. He writes: “Both terms could succinctly define the government of President Medina, who acts as a kind of Dr. Jekyll, the good man of surprise visits and numerous gestures and winks to the most vulnerable, and his ministers and directors, of the Mr. Hyde species that destroy all the good that the other person may have done.”
He makes the remarks referring to the Customs Agency that recently increased taxes on cell phone imports from 3% to 8% in “full digital revolution” and just a day after the President had spoken openly about the importance of digital access during the opening of a public school.
And the repeated cases regarding environment, as Tejada writes that “all the good that was being done has been changed by one stroke by the new incumbent who is more concerned about sowing to eat now than to save the waters with which it will be possible to eat in the future.”
Tejada writes: “The President is an austere man, but many of his ministers are not. The President is a measured person, but we are tired of the chatter of many of his ministers and directors. The President is an honest man, who keeps his word. The same cannot be said of many of his ministers.”
Tejada concludes: “More coordination is needed to achieve coherence in government. You need money, it’s true, and you have to look for it, but a good plan would work better.”
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
Diario Libre
11 February 2019
