In a comparison of the Dominican Republic to China, Hoy’s Rafael Molina Morillo tells of a Chinese official convicted of corruption and executed. “Just like here!” according to Molina, with a few exceptions. In the first place, there is no death penalty in the Dominican Republic, no matter what the crime. Another small difference is that here, the misuse of state funds is something so common that it is hardly considered a crime. On the contrary, “The majority of those who take public office do it with the purpose of ‘making it’ or in other words, ‘getting mine’, after all that is why we are in power!” What is unpardonable in this marvelous country is to rob too little. Morillo says that if you rob too little, the full weight of the law will fall upon you. He cites the case of the man who got ten years for stealing a sausage or the woman who was shot dead for stealing a papaya while her killer is walking around free. Therefore, if you are going to rob or fool the people, Molina says, “Do it big,” because that guarantees a soft sentence, bail and permission to leave the country. That is why, with only a few little differences, we are just like China with regards to how we treat corruption. (The Chinese that started this editorial had asked for clemency, which the judge denied.)