SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday said he regrets that since the two years when the global economic crisis began, the formulas to solve it have yet to be found, for which he suggests that Latin America adopt a regional position to surpass it.
He also proposed fusing the neoliberal and neopopulist economic currents, to look for a third option as a viable solution to the crisis. "It’s there, where we were at the moment, how to look for the solution, overcoming neoliberalism and neopopulism, and perhaps the answer is to integrate the two, in linking State with market, that’s the other great polemic."
Fernandez, speaking in the 2nd Santo Domingo International Forum "Dialogue on Democracy, Development, Social Cohesion and Security in Latin America,” stressed that the market must exist wherever interchanges between humans take place and Latin America’s problem is that "we have fiscally weak states."
"There cannot be wellbeing and prosperity for the people when there are poor states. It’s a fact that there’s still no awareness in Latin America on having a fiscally strong state that can provide responses to the population’s problems," Fernandez said in the event, held in the Global Foundation Democracy and Development (Funglode).
Written by: okian, 10 May 2011 9:17 AM
From: United States
Is this the same crisis that he said wan't affecting the Dominican Republic???
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
"fusing neoliberal and neopopulist economic currents"
How about neo- integrity and neo-honesty in the governments.
It's that Spanish legacy: "steal today, we'll see tomorrow" that affects all their ex-colonies.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
"There cannot be wellbeing and prosperity for the people when there are poor states"......You should be embarrassed, Lee-FLEA....I don't think you yourself give a rats ass of the wellbeing and prosperity of the people, if you only address the issue when addressing other nations and not including your own. The cost of living in the dominican republic is very high and there is 71% of the nation making less than 15,000peso's a month which 3600 goes to concho transportation and 5000 for rent, leaving 6400( equal to 25USD a week) for food and water, but, how about Clothing, school, electricity, television, cell phone or land line, medical, internet and cooking gas....... You want the dominican republic to lead while you build your tunnels, overpasses and metro while forgetting and not mentioning the Electrical problems and corruptions that are running-a-muck of this Island as you keep your people in a poor STATE....... PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.... numskull !!!
Written by: BASTA, 10 May 2011 11:51 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Ass wipe
Written by: Escott, 10 May 2011 2:40 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a 2 days a month for payday
I haven't read so much Blah Blah since I read Dreads last post!:)
From: Dominican Republic
I first heard LF's ultra-utopic, silver-tongued, media-spinned terminology of "neo-populism", in a recent TV report and couldn't believe my ears. As much time as I spend online reading articles on related subjects, this to my knowledge is the first time I've heard coined the term "neo-populism". Apparently LF's silver-tongued rhetorical style, could be our new online dictionary, instead of having to bother with wikipedia. Anyway if LF is tongue lashing "neoliberalism", I wish he could explain exactly which is the system employed in D.R. To my knowledge, there are only two socioeconomic systems more or less in use in Latin America; either you have a socialist system starting with our big sister Cuba, and going through the ALBA countries, etc., or you have neoliberalism of one degree or another, which envelops progressives countries like Brazil and Argentina. It doesn't take a Chicago graduate to conclude that neoliberalism has produced nothing but disaster for our Continent.
From: Dominican Republic
Continuing-LF's legendary demagoguery is intended primarily for his boot-licking hypnotized audiences of his PLD entourage, which themselves are so out of touch with the majority, with their "come-solos" ideology, that they really don't know the difference, and thus they naturally will buy into this "neo-populist" concept. We could wrap ourselves around the axle with LF's silver-tongued nuggets, until our heads spin. This brings to mind such exotic terms as "neoliberal gorbachiovano" and "perestroikos criollos" which I've picked up from our Peninsular journo friends. To my knowledge the "neo-populist" term is not even employed either in MSM Latin American media, or progressive circles, thus making it a bogus terminology. That the hypnotized, boot-licking audience at FUNGLODE couldn't even question the term, leads me to think that they are part of Chomsky's "virtual reality' audience we hear so much about. This is definitely a newfangled LF, pulling rabbits out of a hat......
Written by: Juango, 10 May 2011 2:58 PM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
It is obvious to most folks, LF has been schmoozing and replaying scenes of "Brokeback Mountain" with his buddy Mel Zelaya. May they both together ride into a Dominican sunset and out of the lives of the Dominican people. Leonel habla tanta MI*RDA ! The global economic crisis is something the "Dominican Republic is immune to", per LF, only short 20+ months ago.
From: Dominican Republic
Concluding-LF's "Third Stream" which is what I read between the lines, could only exist in a neocolonial, and neo-balaguerista mind such as his'. LF turned his back on his own people a long time ago mostly, notwithstanding the mostly cosmetic and pharaonic projects he keeps pumping out, while a good part of the population has critical water and power shortages, and their communities go in disrepair without decent asphalted streets and roads. The IMF owns the D.R., and thus its truly "neoliberal" ruling clique will continue taxing the fuels to the population, in order to service the IMF's debt interest. D.R. chose to kneel before Uncle Sam, and later before Canadian and European big interests. If there is such a thing as "neo-populism" which is nothing, but a veiled insult to our ALBA countries' leadership, in turn coated with a generous dosage of "neoliberalism", I think in real terms it is LF, the inventor of the term, the real recipient of its dubious etymological definition. :-)
Written by: danny00, 10 May 2011 3:52 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
education in the dr, is more illusory then real.
From: Dominican Republic
The imperal satrpy of Macondo.....
From: Dominican Republic, Dominican Republic
I'm glad Fernandez is finally expressing some doubts about neoliberalism, but actions speak louder than words. I'd like to see some actions.
From: Dominican Republic
Walter Polo's typically xenophobic remarks about the Spanish legacy of the ex-colonies etc. is that canned soapbox self-righteous preaching of our anglo-american social darwinists, whose functional illiteracy of the historic memory has never admitted to the hemispheric raping of our nations from the Rio Bravo to the Patagonia, with the U.S. as the main continental bleeder, followed closely by Canadian and European multi-nationals. Of course, according to our historical expert Walter Polo, the U.S. is not responsible for intervening in the internal affairs of our nations, with the consequence many times not only of disrupting socioeconomic progress, let alone of the mass murders, disappearances, tortures, etc. attributed among others to Plan Condor, Plan Colombia, etc., etc., Yep folks, it's our genetic misfortune to have Uncle Sam intrude in our nations affairs, and then let Uncle Sam off the hook throughout our history. Walter Polo should write a best-seller on Latin American history!
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How about neo- integrity and neo-honesty in the governments.
It's that Spanish legacy: "steal today, we'll see tomorrow" that affects all their ex-colonies.