NewsWhore
10-01-2008, 03:30 PM
In today's Listin Diario news commentator Orlando Gil observes that the chief of the Navy recently announced he had dismissed three more officers for "visiting drug dealers." These latest three bring the total fired in the Navy so far to eight. When journalists asked Vice Admiral Julio Cesar Ventura Bayonet for the consequences, the Navy chief explained that there would be none, and did not provide the officers' names either. Gil says that journalists had obtained the names from other sources. "The information was as simple as that, and he provided it as if it were a routine occurrence, as if it were normal to fire navy men, and that these have relations with the worst kind of criminals," writes Gil. But then he comments, "Ventura Bayonet is wrong, and this way of handling matters confirms that the armed forces are susceptible to the drug trafficking business and this is why their credibility is low.
Gil says there is another question left up in the air. "What happens to the officers who are removed from the armed forces for their relations to criminal events or with drug traffickers?" he asks. He comments that the authorities should investigate in order to ascertain that simple expulsion from the forces is not sufficient.
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Gil says there is another question left up in the air. "What happens to the officers who are removed from the armed forces for their relations to criminal events or with drug traffickers?" he asks. He comments that the authorities should investigate in order to ascertain that simple expulsion from the forces is not sufficient.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)