The widely read column “Que se dice” (What’s being said) leads off with two paragraphs on the infamous convicted drug dealer Rolando Florian Felix. The first one recounts the exchange of words between the Director General of Prisons, Juan Ramon de la Cruz Martinez and Florian when the former ordered the cell of the latter to be searched. According to the report of the exchange written by the assistant district attorney, who was present as required by the new Penal Code, Florian Felix threatened vengeance against the retired general and his family “even though it would just be against the ducks he had on his farm.” This threat came in response to the removal of his privileges at the Monte Plata jail and his transfer to the cell for people awaiting extradition in the Najayo prison. What has bothered and worried former general de la Cruz Martinez, who is certainly not a man to shrink away from anything, is not the fact of the threat in and of itself, since it is appropriate from an insolent and spoiled prisoner who had been reduced to impotence, but rather what is hidden behind the boast. How was it possible for Florian Feliz, a man who by his condition as a prisoner, cannot set foot outside the prison, find out something so personal, so close to the former general, as his hobby of raising ducks? The answer to this question could make anybody’s knees shake, including a person of the strength of the Director General of Prisons.
The second paragraph cites the long list of amenities that were confiscated from Florian’s cell. The list included a computer, air conditioner, a billiard table, alcoholic beverages and other unheard of luxuries. The columnist questions how this can occur in a prison.