NewsWhore
07-09-2007, 05:20 PM
Most readers have never heard of the Alternative Social Forum (FSA). They are, however, well known among intelligence agencies as the remaining members of the leftist movements of the 70s and 80s. According to the El Caribe, there was no way that President Fernandez could have halted this week's strike, since the action is part of a greater plan by the movement that is trying to "measure just how far advanced" things are in the face of those things they want to change are concerned. According to the newspaper, the government was not all that enthusiastic in seeking a dialogue with this group since it was quite convinced that it was dealing with a new type of organization, very different from the transport unions that it had dealt with previously.
This group is the new face of the failed left that died with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The demands of the FSA are, of course, impossible to fulfill. Some are quite common sense, such as lower food prices, good water supplies, roads and highways, increased salaries (including the police and armed forces), all of which are totally understandable by everyone. However, other demands are structural, such as "the defeat of the imposition of the neo-liberal model that destroys the national productive apparatus and places the Dominican nation in danger." The group also pushes for a break with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the withdrawal from DR-CAFTA, among other things. The group is part of the FALPO.
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This group is the new face of the failed left that died with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The demands of the FSA are, of course, impossible to fulfill. Some are quite common sense, such as lower food prices, good water supplies, roads and highways, increased salaries (including the police and armed forces), all of which are totally understandable by everyone. However, other demands are structural, such as "the defeat of the imposition of the neo-liberal model that destroys the national productive apparatus and places the Dominican nation in danger." The group also pushes for a break with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the withdrawal from DR-CAFTA, among other things. The group is part of the FALPO.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)