SANTO DOMINGO.- Peravia province senator Wilton Guerrero said Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez “is so good, that he’s good for nothing,” in what now has become another major scandal for president Leonel Fernandez’s Administration.
The Dominican ruling party legislator, after describig Dominican Republic’s top law-enforcement official as a “whitewashed tomb,” said the commission Jimenez headed to investigate the execution of seven men in the community Paya in a drugs case, didn’t investigate anything. “They went to Baní to eat milk fudge and Bani’s mangos”
On August 5 seven men; three Venezuelans, two Nicaraguans and two Colombians, were found dead in a cane field in Paya. He reiterated to the investigating commission that the Peravia province governor Bienvenido Montero is involved with drugs.
Guerrero denounced that an assistant of the provincial Police commander, a lieutenant whose last name is Minyetti, (cabeza), collects the tolls (money) from 350 drug selling points.
He criticized that instead of Police chief Rafafael Guzman removing general Hilario Gonzales from his post and filing charges, Jimenez suggested a transfer, since both are goompas.
Guerrero asked Fernandez to be careful regarding the information that officials take to him around the probe.
Last week, the President’s narcotics adviser Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) said the measures to confront drug-trafficking haven’t been taken, despite his “repeated” warnings to Fernandez.
From: Venezuela, Puerto la Cruz, Sector Agua Potable, Pozuelos
Peravia province senator Wilton Guerrero said Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez “is so good, that he’s good for nothing,”
Que Bola, buen hecho
Written by: juanb, 8 Sep 2008 9:20 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Hey Fernandez:
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. WHICH IS IT?
Written by: Belial, 8 Sep 2008 9:29 AM
From: United States, Texas
LF should say "Wilton Guerrero, you want to be justice minister?"
If Guerrero takes the job [... which I doubt ...] we will see a cannon go after the bad guys and rich and powerful families of the DR who protect the bad guys.
Guerrero may not have the legal background for the job, as if that is at all important.
The current minister has the legal background, for all the good that has done.
Guerrero will likely want somebody in the job Guerrero believes he can work with, rather than vacate his seat in the senate.
From: United States, California, San Francisco, Treasure Island
seven men; three Venezuelans, two Nicaraguans and two Colombians,....this sounds like a Farc group from Venezuela sent to raise money....nobody is afraid of FARC any more so that was the end of them
From: United States
Leonel Fernandez is missing lots of masculine stamina, manhood will and a man attitude to be a real president.
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 10:58 AM
From: United States
"Written by: JRRubirosa, 8 Sep 2008 9:38 AM
From: United States
Leonel Fernandez is missing lots of masculine stamina, manhood will and a man attitude to be a real president."
Lie-onel your in real trouble, if you have lost Ruby's support!
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 11:41 AM
From: United States
Written by: Juango, 8 Sep 2008 12:06 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Could it be that Frenandez is just buying time, till he figures Guerrero will just go away (disappear)? Or perhaps, Fernandez is being squeezed by some people, inorder not to do anything on this matter, as he himself may be threatened by some outside powerful forces? No one really knows? But one thing is clearly obvoius. He (LF) is not willing to do anything about it ! What a coward, he has become. He has yet to make a public statement on the Bani situation. This is becoming his worst nightmare.
Written by: juanb, 8 Sep 2008 12:15 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Juango:
His silence is his statement.
Josean:
Welcome back. Where have you been? Out riding the Metro?
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 1:03 PM
From: United States
No juanb,
I was at a secure undisclosed location like the favorite vice president of the man from the Lone Star State and his side kick from the 49th parallel!
From: United States
Finally, there are a few honest RD officials like senator Wilton Guerrero who are not playing the GAME of back scratching & don't ask - don't tell and I will pay you later! Prez LF do nothing strategy in order to maintain his network in an option for ongoing deception & corruption despite warnings from his own Narcotics Advisor.
Wow, it would be great...if US DEA, Fannin in our embassy & FBI actually gave more faith to people like the senator (instead of the masses of RD Gov politicians) He is telling the our story that I have been trying to get Gov officials to listen that there is widespread RD Gov corruption in high places and protection for Tigres in my Santiago barrio of Ensache Caonabo (Los Platanitos) who micro-traffick large amounts of drugs....
Bani is only a tip of the iceberg and one example of military, police, Gov & DNCD who benefit BIG from illegal international drug trafficking at the expense of Dominican & American society.
From: United States
LF,
It is pathetic. Dominicans killing Dominicans with drugs.
Be a man.
From: United States
Someone in the Journalist Circles should begin campaigning for Wilton Guerrero as the new Drug Czar. The Journalist in the country have become scared as well. he should have the courage that Wilton Guerrero has and being editorials for the change that is needed in the country. But I doubt it since many journalist have become cowards. Hopefully , there are a few that should declare the war on drugs and Wilton Guerrero as the head.
Written by: bernies, 8 Sep 2008 1:55 PM
From: United States, falls church va
LF needs to speak out to honor the people that voted for him....That's why it is hard to understand dominican politics people there wants to see a president with strong hands and not somebody that is not man enough to speak. just take a look at what they did with the electrical companies..a meeting to cut down prices but no represantation from the consumers. what a phony.
From: United States
So where are the drugs????
Written by: juanb, 8 Sep 2008 3:37 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Some one in the journalistic circles should just speak up. Period. Instead of burying this important news in the editorial section, where noone reads it, let's put this news on both the front page and the front of the sports pages where ALL DOMINICANS will read it and become aware of the travesty that is our government.
Written by: Belial, 8 Sep 2008 3:55 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Someone in the Journalist Circles should begin campaigning for Wilton Guerrero as the new Drug Czar. The Journalist in the country have become scared as well. he should have the courage that Wilton Guerrero has and being editorials for the change that is needed in the country. But I doubt it since many journalist have become cowards. Hopefully , there are a few that should declare the war on drugs and Wilton Guerrero as the head."
oooo
Right.
Guerrero clearly has the noodles and guts for the job, but he may be attached to his senate seat.
I don't see even the least groundswell of support among journalists or other circles for Guerrero or his surrogate to take over the justice job against the dope man.
LF may kick out "milk fudge and Bani’s mangos,” but unless LF puts in somebody different from "milk fudge and Bani’s mangos,” what's the point?
As for journalists, they got good reason to be scared ... the way the dope man is shooting journalists.
Written by: Belial, 8 Sep 2008 4:05 PM
From: United States, Texas
DOPE MAN: Leonel, if you appoint that crazy fool Guerrero or his surrogate justice minister. I declare war on you and your administration like the dope man has already done against Calderon in Mexico.
LF: What do you mean war?
DOPE MAN: I'll grab all of your police generals and cut their heads off.
LF: You promise?
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 4:42 PM
From: United States
Oh Vincho is in trouble now "Republicans soft on drugs Democrats tuff;"
Source DR1
Vincho on lack of support from US
Presidential advisor on drug trafficking, lawyer Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo has complained about the limited support the country has received from the Bush administration. Castillo said that the opposite had been the case under the Clinton administration. Speaking on Teleradio America, Channel 45 program produced by Jose Baez Guerrero, Castillo said that from 1996-2000, the US backed the local war on drug trafficking, with General Barry McCaffrey, commander of the United States Southern Command, and director of the US Office of the National Drug Control Policy (1996-2001) himself coming to the country on several occasions. He also commended the support received from former heads of the Dominican mission Donna Jean Hrinak and Linda Watt. "But that all vanished in 2000.
Continued
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 4:44 PM
From: United States
error
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 4:44 PM
From: United States
The Bush administration (2000-2004 removed its logistical support, there was carelessness, which was a bit dangerous," he said, as reported in El Caribe. Castillo stated that there had been blatant neglect in the case of the DR, and that the diplomatic representatives sent to the country since 2001 were "low level", coinciding with what he described in El Caribe as a dangerous and permissive government administration.
"That the doors were open to drug dealers, to the point where we are on the verge of becoming a narco-state, and operations were carried out with people tied to power," he said, alluding to former President Hipolito Mejia's administration. He said that a local purge of the Armed Forces and Police is needed.
Continued
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 4:45 PM
From: United States
Castillo commented that on the night when seven people were massacred in Paya, Bani, the entire DNCD staff was removed from the area and sent to Barahona. "That kind of maneuver of removing the DNCD staff to Barahona had to be linked to someone with a lot of authority," he said. When the staff returned the next day, the killing and the dispatch of the truck with 1,200 kilos of cocaine had already taken place. He said that structures are in place that favor drug trafficking.
Written by: BASTA, 8 Sep 2008 5:03 PM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
In NYC and Washington DC the Dominicans sell the drugs and the P. Ricans use the drugs. If that is a fact than where are the Police and FBI? Corruption reins everywhere.
Written by: Belial, 8 Sep 2008 8:44 PM
From: United States, Texas
LF is being knocked off track from his success at the Rio Summit, his solid re-election in May, and his solitary opposition against oil speculators in NYC that, at least, helped to produce splendid results, so far, for the DR and for the world in terms of reduction of energy prices from record highs of late. [Most other leaders kept their big mouths shut tight as oil prices climbed higher and higher.] LF is also being knocked off of his newfound leadership role within the context of growing Petrocaribe organization as the LA/C top voice on the food crisis which is 1000 times more important that these interminable, filthy and slimy bourgeois scandals that pop up everyday.
With the Caribbean being attack by one hurricane after another, the region needs a top voice.
The Petrocaribe Council of Agricultural Ministers controls a daily inflow of about $1.2 million.
LF should focus more on this than bourgeois slime, filth, rotteness, garbage and trash who are always doing wrong.
Written by: Belial, 8 Sep 2008 8:58 PM
From: United States, Texas
LF should use his enhanced influence and prestige to get Cuba the opportunity ... at least for 90 days ... to buy US food exports on the same terms that 170 other countries, including the DR, buy US food exports all the time.
If the DR increases its influence and prestige by breaking out of the distasteful habit of backyard servility, the DR helps the DR as well as Cuba as well as other potential beneficiaries in the region.
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Que Bola, buen hecho
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. WHICH IS IT?
If Guerrero takes the job [... which I doubt ...] we will see a cannon go after the bad guys and rich and powerful families of the DR who protect the bad guys.
Guerrero may not have the legal background for the job, as if that is at all important.
The current minister has the legal background, for all the good that has done.
Guerrero will likely want somebody in the job Guerrero believes he can work with, rather than vacate his seat in the senate.
From: United States
Leonel Fernandez is missing lots of masculine stamina, manhood will and a man attitude to be a real president."
Lie-onel your in real trouble, if you have lost Ruby's support!
http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=72911
His silence is his statement.
Josean:
Welcome back. Where have you been? Out riding the Metro?
I was at a secure undisclosed location like the favorite vice president of the man from the Lone Star State and his side kick from the 49th parallel!
Wow, it would be great...if US DEA, Fannin in our embassy & FBI actually gave more faith to people like the senator (instead of the masses of RD Gov politicians) He is telling the our story that I have been trying to get Gov officials to listen that there is widespread RD Gov corruption in high places and protection for Tigres in my Santiago barrio of Ensache Caonabo (Los Platanitos) who micro-traffick large amounts of drugs....
Bani is only a tip of the iceberg and one example of military, police, Gov & DNCD who benefit BIG from illegal international drug trafficking at the expense of Dominican & American society.
LF,
It is pathetic. Dominicans killing Dominicans with drugs.
Be a man.
oooo
Right.
Guerrero clearly has the noodles and guts for the job, but he may be attached to his senate seat.
I don't see even the least groundswell of support among journalists or other circles for Guerrero or his surrogate to take over the justice job against the dope man.
LF may kick out "milk fudge and Bani’s mangos,” but unless LF puts in somebody different from "milk fudge and Bani’s mangos,” what's the point?
As for journalists, they got good reason to be scared ... the way the dope man is shooting journalists.
DOPE MAN: Leonel, if you appoint that crazy fool Guerrero or his surrogate justice minister. I declare war on you and your administration like the dope man has already done against Calderon in Mexico.
LF: What do you mean war?
DOPE MAN: I'll grab all of your police generals and cut their heads off.
LF: You promise?
Source DR1
Vincho on lack of support from US
Presidential advisor on drug trafficking, lawyer Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo has complained about the limited support the country has received from the Bush administration. Castillo said that the opposite had been the case under the Clinton administration. Speaking on Teleradio America, Channel 45 program produced by Jose Baez Guerrero, Castillo said that from 1996-2000, the US backed the local war on drug trafficking, with General Barry McCaffrey, commander of the United States Southern Command, and director of the US Office of the National Drug Control Policy (1996-2001) himself coming to the country on several occasions. He also commended the support received from former heads of the Dominican mission Donna Jean Hrinak and Linda Watt. "But that all vanished in 2000.
Continued
"That the doors were open to drug dealers, to the point where we are on the verge of becoming a narco-state, and operations were carried out with people tied to power," he said, alluding to former President Hipolito Mejia's administration. He said that a local purge of the Armed Forces and Police is needed.
Continued
With the Caribbean being attack by one hurricane after another, the region needs a top voice.
The Petrocaribe Council of Agricultural Ministers controls a daily inflow of about $1.2 million.
LF should focus more on this than bourgeois slime, filth, rotteness, garbage and trash who are always doing wrong.
If the DR increases its influence and prestige by breaking out of the distasteful habit of backyard servility, the DR helps the DR as well as Cuba as well as other potential beneficiaries in the region.