{"id":40677,"date":"2001-07-24T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-07-24T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/the-responsibility-of-those-in-power\/"},"modified":"2001-07-24T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-07-24T01:43:56","slug":"the-responsibility-of-those-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/24\/the-responsibility-of-those-in-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The responsibility of those in power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its editorial today, El Caribe newspaper focuses on the debate between the President of the Senate and President Mejia regarding the recent borrowing spree of the PRD administration.  &#147;What is meaningful in the recent statements is not that they were made, as President Mejia says, by Ramon&#146;s &#147;hangover&#148;, who has not yet recovered from events that reduced his political clout. Neither is it that Senator Alburquerque is the leading role player in these &#147;rash and onerous acts.&#148; What is generally meaningful is that the authorities and political leaders speak and act responding to their most immediate interests, in all cases removed completely from the general well-being, because they have dedicated themselves to weave an immense spider web of ignominious debts in which first they will be trapped, and later the nation.&#148; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its editorial today, El Caribe newspaper focuses on the debate between the President of the Senate and President Mejia regarding the recent borrowing spree of the PRD administration. &#147;What is meaningful in the recent statements is not that they were made, as President Mejia says, by Ramon&#146;s &#147;hangover&#148;, who has not yet recovered from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/24\/the-responsibility-of-those-in-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}