I think:
1.) All the Dominicans, rich or poor, that are stealing electricity. 57% of the generated electricity in this Country is stolen.
2.) The Government that is way to lean on this Thieves. If they would address this Issue in a serious matter and cut off entire streets and barrios of this stealing crooks they would never be elected again for the next 200 years.

Please share your views !

Neither. I think the culture is to blame.

The fact that so much people steal electricity and so much people steal government funds has become part of the culture. That, and the fact that here we get used to it and it's just "normal".

We are not the only country with such problems! Theres country's with whole regions that lack electricity and drinkable water look at Africa, the Middle East, Central America, South America even Haiti has a worst electricity problem than us 20 fold times.

While this might be true, it doesn't make our case any less annoying or embarrassing. If this country really wants to have a prayer on the way to development, it really needs to shed this "but-other-people-have-the-same-problems" kind of mentality.

Gizmoe
We are not the only country with such problems! Theres country's with whole regions that lack electricity and drinkable water look at Africa, the Middle East, Central America, South America even Haiti has a worst electricity problem than us 20 fold times.

Lautaro
While this might be true, it doesn't make our case any less annoying or embarrassing.

Gizmoe Agreed but Dominicans that post in this forum are the most disgruntled human beings in the world i have ever encountered. The fact is there's places in this world that are worst off than D.R., just imagine living in Yemen in the middle of the desert with the unbearable heat no water and no electricity. The closest source for water is a pump located 15 miles away, you're school about 10 miles from you're small village, now that's bad try topping that situation and it can get worst in other places.

Gizmoe
We are not the only country with such problems! Theres country's with whole regions that lack electricity and drinkable water look at Africa, the Middle East, Central America, South America even Haiti has a worst electricity problem than us 20 fold times.

Lautaro
While this might be true, it doesn't make our case any less annoying or embarrassing.

Gizmoe Agreed but Dominicans that post in this forum are the most disgruntled human beings in the world i have ever encountered. The fact is there's places in this world that are worst off than D.R., just imagine living in Yemen in the middle of the desert with the unbearable heat no water and no electricity. The closest source for water is a pump located 15 miles away, you're school about 10 miles from you're small village, now that's bad try topping that situation and it can get worst in other places.
Link
http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2009/03/in-yemen-waters-role-in-war-on-terror_1295.html

yes, there are worse places, relatively speaking. but what about the better places? what about countries with lesser resources than we have, but are way ahead of us? need i remind readers, one more time, that in the early 1950s the GDP of South Korea, then a bomb crater, was less than that of the DR? what happened? why are we focusing on countries that are worse off? they are not the ones to emulate. we should be casting our gaze upon those who excel, and not use lost causes as our measuring sticks.

Observed wisely.
That's why it is as it is.

But it's not that easy:
Money is stolen in the CDE's.
Electricity is stolen by whomsoever.
Meters are demolished in riots ("huelgas" ) by thugs who don't pay "la luz" anyhow.
Power lines are often stolen by the very ones who installed them.
People who pay their invoices don't get electricity as they should.
The government dishes out low consumption bulbs free.
People don't care about their power consumption because they don't pay for it anyway.
It's chaos.
It's the DR.


m'frog

and, m'frog, do not leave out the fact that when a legitimate, bona fide electricity customer has his supply hooked up, he has to make periodic inspections to verify whether or not half the neighborhood is hooked up to his line.

You must be referring to a 'gringo' customer...
In that case the illegal hookup is 'merecido' and only a 'prestamo'....

m'frog