NewsWhore
09-14-2006, 03:40 PM
In its "De buena tinta" back page column, today's Diario Libre reports on an interesting tidbit from Dominican politics. It explains that while the government has kept Javier Gonzalez as consul in Miami during this Presidential term (he was consul general in Miami during the first Fernandez term), the post of consul in NY has been rotated. The columnist says that this fulfills a kind of agreement in which every year a PLD politician replaces another in what is considered one of the "juiciest" jobs in Dominican political clientelism. The new appointee, who is president of the PLD's New Jersey, Pennsylvania and DC branch has been a party member for years now. "But among his virtues there is one that is worth talking about: he is Administrative Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina's wife's brother." Danilo Medina is regarded as the PLD's kingmaker, and aspires to the presidential nomination for the party in 2008.
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