Hoy newspaper?s editorial today says that the Baninter situation, which it describes as shameful and the worst financial scandal ever to shake the Republic, was not caused by rumor or hearsay. The writer says that whenever any rumor reached the press, the monetary authorities chose to deny the news of difficulties at the bank. The newspaper says that the country has legal dispositions in place to penalize false rumor-making and calumny. The newspaper says that the Central Bank?s governor is not giving good advice when it asks the Executive Branch to establish any type of censorship with the pretext of avoiding damages to the financial system of the country.
?On the contrary, what is needed is an authority that fulfills the Constitution so that all sources — public and private — have free access. And, above all, the proper authorities should not be the ones that misinform, to try to hide what is visible,? writes the newspaper.
The newspaper expresses the hope that, finally, the authorities may have learned a lesson and that they proceed to supervise, as is their duty, the operations that are carried out without hiding what eventually will be known.