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NewsWhore
10-02-2009, 02:20 PM
Listin Diario today editorializes on what it calls the five cancers affecting Dominican society:
The massive influx of narcotics and increasing consumption of drugs.
The massive penetration of illegal Haitians, and the tsunami-like vocation of this migration to depredate natural resources.
Generalized corruption in public and private sectors with bribes prevailing for the obtaining of advantages.
The prevailing attitude whereby men and women impose their individual interests.
Growing poverty with thousands of youths losing hope that there may be better times ahead.
"We hope that these ingredients in time do not explode and provoke greater damages than those that already we are experiencing at a moral, ethical, political and cultural level. Dominican society has to shake these cancers and move to a general catharsis before the danger of a catastrophe on all our values takes place. Many foresee this explosion of wills but few are acting to prevent it," reads the newspaper's editorial today.

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