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06-22-2010, 06:10 PM
Ines Aizpun of Diario Libre speculates today whether the chief of the Police and the head of the National Drug Control Department will report something new today on the case of Jose David Figueroa Agosto, the Puerto Rican fugitive from justice that the US Marshal has dubbed the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean, in reference to the infamous Colombian drug baron. Inez Aizpun writes: "Great expectations because (they should be aware of this) the population has more doubts about the role of those in charge of arresting him than about the role of those who have been arrested. Drug trafficking, as we see in other countries, is an enemy that is impossible to appease, and appears unstoppable and sadly, people learn to live with it. It makes people poorer and degrades, all before our own eyes. And if before Paya we had any hopes of winning the battle, after that sad spectacle, and that of Atiemar and Figueroa, the authorities have to talk a lot to convince us that they are defending us from "the bad guys." (Or probably talk less and talk more)."
A press conference was called for Tuesday but later postponed till Wednesday. The Prosecutor General Office will also be taking part.
Eddy Brito, Mary Pelaez, Ivanovich Smester, Sammy Dahuajre and Juan Jose Hernandez Ibarra have been arrested in connection with the case, primarily for money laundering.
The case has left a trail of apparent contract killings, including former Police Colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez, owner of La Francesa bakery Ruben Soto Hayet, La Victoria jail inmate Jose Gabriel Arias Castillo and Omar Antigua Polanco. These individuals were all said to have close ties to Jose David Figueroa Agosto.
In its back-page editorial, Diario Libre also comments on how familiar the Figueroa Agosto case has become with Dominicans. The newspaper speculates that if Figueroa Agosto were to be brought to the DR many altars would collapse. "Not saints, but altars, that is the same as toppling the church. And really that is what is wanted, because there is evidence since the start that the church is in the hands of Luther," writes the newspaper.
"What's the point in having so many altars, if we pray to them and they do not listen to the prayers of the faithful or the unfaithful? They can forget the new report."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)
A press conference was called for Tuesday but later postponed till Wednesday. The Prosecutor General Office will also be taking part.
Eddy Brito, Mary Pelaez, Ivanovich Smester, Sammy Dahuajre and Juan Jose Hernandez Ibarra have been arrested in connection with the case, primarily for money laundering.
The case has left a trail of apparent contract killings, including former Police Colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez, owner of La Francesa bakery Ruben Soto Hayet, La Victoria jail inmate Jose Gabriel Arias Castillo and Omar Antigua Polanco. These individuals were all said to have close ties to Jose David Figueroa Agosto.
In its back-page editorial, Diario Libre also comments on how familiar the Figueroa Agosto case has become with Dominicans. The newspaper speculates that if Figueroa Agosto were to be brought to the DR many altars would collapse. "Not saints, but altars, that is the same as toppling the church. And really that is what is wanted, because there is evidence since the start that the church is in the hands of Luther," writes the newspaper.
"What's the point in having so many altars, if we pray to them and they do not listen to the prayers of the faithful or the unfaithful? They can forget the new report."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)