Paredes offended

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Senate President Reinaldo Pared Perez has expressed his anger about comments made by US Ambassador to the DR, Robert Fannin. Paredes described Fannin's comments, made at the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) luncheon yesterday, about the increased public perception of corruption in the DR, the critical problems affecting the electricity sector and how these deficiencies will deter foreign investors, and his calls for the government to implement the law penalizing electricity theft, among other things, as "shameless meddling" by the Ambassador. Quoted in Hoy, Paredes urged the Foreign Ministry to look into the matter and asked Fannin to "look at his own country." Paredes said Fannin's statements were intolerable. Instead of addressing the issues he raised, Paredes spoke about the US financial crisis and asked the Ambassador to comment about the corruption in the US as he has done about the subject in the DR.

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