SANTO DOMINGO.- The Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (ADOCCO) hailed the call by the journalist and writer Miguel Guerrero who urged the press and the media “to form a front of support of the journalists Nuria Piera and Alicia Ortega and defend the use of the Free Access to Public Information Law.”

ADOCCO general coordinator Julio Cesar de la Rosa supports the work by the two journalists, who denounce irregularities in diverse Dominican Government agencies every week, turning their programs into true internal control mechanisms, which isn’t done by the General Controller, the Accounts Chamber and Congress, which are assigned that function constitutionally.

De la Rosa agrees with Guerrero, that Piera and Ortega “are being pressed so they stop denouncing corruption” and the announcement by Puerto Plata province deputy Alfonso Crisóstomo to seek to amend the Free Access to Public Information Law. “The deputy’s pretensions aren’t individual, it’s a test put out to measure civil society, for which from now on we announce that we aren’t going to allow the mutilation of the main tool which the organizations which fight corruption can count on, because thanks to them we’ve been able to obtain data which were previously unthinkable to get.”