2003News

Unpatriotic Dominicans

Writing in the Listin Diario, commentator Ana Mitila Lora says the conflicts mentioned by the international financial authorities are comparable to the dilemma faced by those Dominicans lucky enough to have some money to spare. In the same way the government is putting the country’s interests behind the President’s re-election ambitions, Dominicans are faced with …
2003News

Leonel urges austerity

PLD pre-Presidential candidate Leonel Fernandez has said that the next government will have to be austere in its public expenditures, and proposes an economic model based on the private sector. Should he be put into power, he pledged, his administration would concentrate on lowering interest rates and increasing capital flow. These “anti-populist” measures, according to …