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09-14-2011, 06:00 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has spent long hours discussing his position that international financial speculation has impoverished billions of people. On Monday, he made a speech to a Dominican audience outlining his stance on the global issue.
In a column published today, executive editor of Diario Libre Adriano Miguel Tejada asks President Leonel Fernandez to put the United Nations proposal-speech he gave on Monday night to discuss the global crisis in terms of financial speculation and its impact on the price of oil and food into Dominican perspective.
"If any criticism can be made of the President's speech it is that outside of its proposal to the United Nations, there was no plan for Dominicans. Just as the President can say 'I cannot control the price of wheat or corn,' he could have said 'but we will grow more and better and our fields produce more bananas and corn.' And when he complained about the price of oil, which obviously we cannot control, he could have said 'we will penalize the sale of high-cylinder capacity vehicles with a tax,' or that the PetroCaribe funds will be invested in productive public works.
Tejada said that if the President put the speech in a Dominican context, he could turn a global problem into a national project in which all forces in the country could converge for the achievement of a common purpose, beneficial for the nation in the short and long term.
He concludes that "the President would not be speaking as a political candidate, but rather as the statesman he is, with a future".
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In a column published today, executive editor of Diario Libre Adriano Miguel Tejada asks President Leonel Fernandez to put the United Nations proposal-speech he gave on Monday night to discuss the global crisis in terms of financial speculation and its impact on the price of oil and food into Dominican perspective.
"If any criticism can be made of the President's speech it is that outside of its proposal to the United Nations, there was no plan for Dominicans. Just as the President can say 'I cannot control the price of wheat or corn,' he could have said 'but we will grow more and better and our fields produce more bananas and corn.' And when he complained about the price of oil, which obviously we cannot control, he could have said 'we will penalize the sale of high-cylinder capacity vehicles with a tax,' or that the PetroCaribe funds will be invested in productive public works.
Tejada said that if the President put the speech in a Dominican context, he could turn a global problem into a national project in which all forces in the country could converge for the achievement of a common purpose, beneficial for the nation in the short and long term.
He concludes that "the President would not be speaking as a political candidate, but rather as the statesman he is, with a future".
www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=305422 (http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=305422)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)