Today’s Clave Digital highlights the creation of dozens of highly paid posts in the Fernandez government. The new posts coincide with the last year of President Fernandez who seeks re-election, and contrast with a proposed austerity in government law that precisely proposed to reduce government spending on wages and other non-essential chapters enacted on the occasion of the government passing an additional tax reform in January 2007 levying considerable more taxes on individuals and companies.
The new government positions are:
Presidential advisor on environmental affairs – Max Puig.
Presidential advisor on gastronomic affairs – Mike Mercedes.
Deputy minister of Labor – Diego (Babado) Torres. Clave Digital mentions that this is the same person who during current Minister of Interior and Police Franklin Almeyda Rancier’s term as UASD rector, at a graduation event, Babado Torres grabbed the microphone, plunging the ceremony into major chaos.
Deputy Minister of Interior and Police – Anibal Sanchez. Clave Digital points out that both Sanchez and Torres are PRD activists from the opposition party’s Rafael Subervi Bonilla faction.
Presidential Assistant with rank of Minister — Manuel de Jesus (Freddy) Perez, removed from his post as minister of Public Works.
Minister without Portfolio – Norge Botello, removed from the Institute for Civil Aviation.
Deputy director of the Industrial Corporation Institute (Fomento Industrial) – Rafael Almanzar.
Deputy director of the Industrial Corporation Institute – Rafael Agustin Peralta.
Deputy director of the Industrial Corporation – Jose Antolin Polanco.
Cooperative Affairs advisor to the President – Conrado Matias.
Deputy Director of the Department for Border Development (Direccion General de Desarrollo Fronterizo) – Angela Pena.
Member of the Commission for Reform and Modernization of the Farming Sector – Flavio Dario de la Rosa.
Deputy Minister of Culture – Carlos Hernandez.
Deputy Minister of Public Health – Alejandro Baez.
Deputy director of the National Water and Sewage Department (INAPA) – Franklin Cruz.
Deputy director of the Department of Generic Medicine (PROMESE) – Argentina Pichardo.
Deputy Minister of Interior and Police – Cristian Encarnacion.
Deputy Minister of Sports – Rafael Sanchez (Jack Veneno)
Deputy Director of INESPRE for the East – Isidro de Jesus Ramirez. Clave Digital explains that he is from the PRD’s Rafael Subervi Bonilla faction).
Deputy Minister of Labor – Ismael Pena, based in La Altagracia.
Ambassador – Rodolfo Rincon (PRSC member who was Minister of Finances, in charge of Corde and Bienes Nacionales during Joaquin Balaguer administrations).
Deputy Minister of Higher Education – Hector Sandoval
Minister without Portfolio – Reynaldo Rincon Kury. Former PRD deputy who owns Rey Tacos and Bakkus bar.
Deputy Minister of Education – Ramon Camacho
Deputy Minister of Tourism – Delfin Santana.
Ambassador. Nelson Didiez. He is a leader of the Partido Democrata Popular (PDP, a traditional PRSC party ally).
Deputy director of the Dominican Agrarian Institute – Fernando Oviedo.
Deputy director of the State Sugar Council – Marcelo de la Cruz.
Deputy director of the Santiago Water Corporation (Coraasan) – Juan Henriquez.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce – Luis Leonardo Taveras.
Deputy director of the Cattle-Ranching Department at the Ministry of Agriculture – Pedro de Leon.
Deputy director of Industry & Commerce – Jose Feliz.
Vice Consul in Marseille, France – Gloria Altagracia Peguero Mendez
Vice Consul in Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Zunelba Gonell.
Deputy director of the Institute for the Development of the Southwest (Indesur) – Alfredo Carrasaco.
Deputy director of the National Housing Institute – Tania Baez.
Deputy director of the Port Authority (APD) – Juan Quinones.