NewsWhore
05-02-2007, 05:40 PM
Today's Espejo de Papel column in Diario Libre comments on DR politics. The columnist goes back to the origins of politics in the time of the ancient Greeks to mention that in those days it was all about being a good speaker and communicating ideas to the people. "One had to think to convince others," the author comments. He says that Dominican politics is very different. It is physical, not verbal. "Rhetoric doesn't count. What counts are the marches, to mobilize and concentrate people. Numbers, not ideas."
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