generoso previously said:

Here is what then Hipoloco vice-president Milagros Ortiz Bosch said about her boss, from excerpts of a wikileak cable:
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 SANTO DOMINGO 005390

SIPDIS

STATE PASS AID

E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/29/2013
TAGS: DR EAID PGOV PINR PREL
SUBJECT: VICE PRESIDENT FAULTS PRESIDENT MEJIA, ADDRESSES
CAMPAIGN ISSUES
Mejia's Shortcomings
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¶4. (C) Ortiz-Bosch faulted President Mejia for poor economic
management, lack of strategy, and failure to communicate with
the public on the administration's considerable
accomplishments in agriculture and rural development, labor,
tourism, education, environment, water and sanitation, and
housing. She said she agrees with Mejia's political vision
and his policies, but believes he has not followed through on
campaign promises and has not allocated enough resources to
human development programs. She claimed the local press has
felt "intimidated" for the past several months and has
practiced self-censorship, including restricting publication
of unspecified opinion poll data. Acknowledging the impact
of external events (9/11, a sluggish world economy, oil price
increases), the Vice President nonetheless accused Mejia of
failing to manage what he could control locally, such as the
massive BANINTER bank fraud and problems in the energy sector.

generoso previously said:



His stubbornness is legendary, and carries on to his offspring, one of whom I had the displeasure of locking horns with, of which (of course) he/she had the last word.
He likes to appear to be rooting for the poor and disadvantaged, but in real life he is completely the opposite, cavorting to the very rich.
He strongly supported refunding the off shore deposits in US currency in Baninter accounts, of prominent Dominican millionaires, one of whom was a supporter of Balaguer, with a very long and corrupt tail, involved in graft, Haitian smuggling, dubious construction contracts, and known sales of publicly owned Dominican assets. Just in this particular case he quickly ordered the return of US$130 million to one person, while the more modest account holders were forced to wait for years to get their monies refunded by the Central bank, and lose thousands by the difference in the exchange rate.

cibaeño75 previously said:


Loco, yo llegue a Baitoa unos dias despues que callo el peso..el pueblo tenia cuatro dias sin luz ya..ni un vaso de agua fria aparecia..la gente desencantada..los caminos y carreteras en ruinas..un sin numeros de señales de miseria..go there now and see the difference for yourself.

cibaeño75 previously said:


Loco, yo llegue a Baitoa unos dias despues que callo el peso..el pueblo tenia cuatro dias sin luz ya..ni un vaso de agua fria aparecia..la gente desencantada..los caminos y carreteras en ruinas..un sin numeros de señales de miseria..go there now and see the difference for yourself.

Lautaro previously said:



Así mismo era con la mayoria de las instituciones del Estado. Por ejemplo, en el 2004 el edificio de impuestos internos parecia un mercado de pulgas como el del Pequeño Haiti, y si lo ves ahora, esta modernisimo y no tiene nada que envidiarle en cuanto a cachivaches de tecnología a cualquiera de sus pares en el primer mundo.