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SANTO DOMINGO.- Just hours after State-owned Power Companies (CDEEE) CEO Celso Marranzini had criticized the three electricity distributors’ poor performance, president Leonel Fernandez last night fired their administrators.

The chief executive’s decree 519-10 designates Francisco Leiva Landabur as general manager of EdeEste, replacing Rubén Bichara; Eduardo Saavedra Pizarro is the new administrator of EdeNorte, replacing Felix Tavárez, and Marcelo Rogelio Silva Iribarne replaces Lorenzo Ventura in EdeSur.

On Wednesday morning Marranzini had warned that the Distributors’ "poor results" kept him awake at night.

Yesterday several news outlets revealed that Bichara had resigned from the post to head the coordination for Danilo Medina’s presidential bid for the ruling PLD party, which he denied to news source diariolibre.com last month.

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Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 9 Sep 2010 8:10 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Marranzini For Prez
Written by: BASTA, 9 Sep 2010 8:13 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Nope electric service sucks and over priced
Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 9 Sep 2010 8:37 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Far far better than it was
Written by: gmiller261, 9 Sep 2010 8:48 AM
From: United States

Celso Marranzini for president.

LF finally did something, I am in shock.

Of course next week we'll find out that they stole millions of RD and they won't go to jail.

Written by: generoso, 9 Sep 2010 8:54 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya

Let the clean sweep continue to other branches of these useless government pencil pushers.
Written by: Lopez31, 9 Sep 2010 9:11 AM
From: United States
Celso is becoming a shot caller. Keep it up Celso.
Written by: dreadlocks, 9 Sep 2010 9:39 AM
From: United States
so, the stumblebum that gets fired from one post gets to head up the coordination for the election bid of a presidential aspirant. so, guess what? if his guy gets elected president, how long will it be before he is back in a high level job, where he can once again show off his uselessness?
Written by: WalterPolo, 9 Sep 2010 9:45 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Good show!

Now, have the new EDEs bosses fire everybody, close down the shops and let Marranzini run everything.

The EDEs are the legacy of the Hippo regime, and one of the most expensive farces created by the PRD and their friends from la madre patria Union Penosa!

Flush'em all.
Written by: BASTA, 9 Sep 2010 10:52 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Far far better than it was = in your dreams
Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 9 Sep 2010 10:58 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Wally you got that right .....Hippo really buggered it up ....Basta was one of the PRD that got the boot
Written by: xwill7, 9 Sep 2010 11:06 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
They are quick to shut off your service when you are late with the payment.
Written by: ConsultorSistemico, 9 Sep 2010 11:36 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
The solution is not to keep changing managers. It is not a management problem, but a leadership one. The solution is to shift from a highly disorganized antisystemic arrangement to organize the electric power industry as a system.

In fact, the real problem is a global problem that we happen to face earlier that elsewhere. To confirm my assestment, please take a look at the post We Need the Creative Destruction of the Electric Power Industry in the link http://bit.ly/EWPC53
Written by: VeronicaDR, 9 Sep 2010 11:49 AM
From: United States
Different people with the same problems. Very little has changed with the country's electrical problems. It is hard to believe in the year 2010 a whole country cannot keep electricity working for it's paying customers 24 hours a day. Only reason why is too many hands in the cookie jar. Corruption keeping our country 200-300 years behind the rest of the world.
Written by: dreadlocks, 9 Sep 2010 11:58 AM
From: United States
ConsultorSystemico, that is one powerful insight you just posted. i have opined , many a time, about the antquated, outmoded systems applied to industry and commerce in this country. it has its genesis in the ownership patterns, which reflect small groups of influencial families owning everything, to the exclusion of most other people. they have no incentive to change and upgrade their modalities, because they make most of their profits by being monopolists. as a consequence, creative destruction never comes into play, at least not in terms of business organisation. inefficient methods of doing things are seen everywhere. it appears that industrial engineers are a creature of the imagination only. i watched a guy selling cups of fruit juice in the bus terminal of Caribe Tours. every time he had a request, he had to go into the back of the area to get the ice. i wondered if the management ever considered the downtime and effort which could be eliminated by putting the ice machine
Written by: danny00, 9 Sep 2010 12:00 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
LOVE THIS COMMENT FROM YESTERDAY.

Written by: dreadlocks, 8 Sep 2010 8:57 AM
From: United States
what else is new ?this is just hilarious. a bunch of nincompoops trying to operate 21st century machinery. the majority probably do not know how to instal batteries in a flashlight, but, they are good and loyal party supporters, so Leonel would trust them with a nuclear submarine

THE ONLY OTHER THING U COULD HAVE SAID AND BE VERY CORRECT WAS
THESES GUYS WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM GETTING WET IN THE RAIN.
FORGET NUCLEAR SUBMARINE.
AND AS FOR VeronicaDR, COMMENT ABOVE YES ITS LIKE ONE JOKE BUT NO ONE IS LAUGHING. YES THE YEAR 2010 AND STILL NO LUZ. WHY DO MANY DOMINICANS HAVE TO SPEND 1[2 THEIR LIVES IN THE DARK? WHY?... ELEC. IS NOT SOMETHING NEW IN THIS WORLD ITS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE U KNOW..
Written by: dreadlocks, 9 Sep 2010 12:00 PM
From: United States
up front, within arms reach. it is not rocket science. there are guys who are trained to figure out the best arrangements of furniture and equipment for the most efficient outcomes. but, we are talking about a country in which someone hires 4 girls to work in an ice cream parlor which sells, maybe, one cone every 15 minutes.
Written by: danny00, 9 Sep 2010 12:05 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
hippo regime?
when he knew he was going out of office he ran and made many of his friends and supportors school teachers.
god have mercy.
Written by: Belly, 9 Sep 2010 2:22 PM
From: United States, Seattle, W.A.
Leiva Landabur - ha sido consultor para el rescate de sectores eléctricos en crisis, con 23 años de experiencia en sector eléctricos en América Latina y África. Desde febrero de 2008 asesora al Ministerio de Energía de Nigeria

Source:diariolibre.com
Written by: Belly, 9 Sep 2010 2:22 PM
From: United States, Seattle, W.A.
The most surprising fact about the changes and not noted here by DT is the fact that the ones coming in are some heavy hitters and not even Dominicans. Maybe this is the way to go forward.

Silva Iribarne - Edesur Dominicana, es ejecutivo de alta dirección e ingeniero comercial que, de 1990 a 2009, fue director de Edesur de Buenos Aires, empresa distribuidora propiedad de Endesa, de España, y Petrobas, de Brasil, a la que manejó en un período de crisis logrando productividad y eficiencia. Fue, además, gerente general de la distribuidora Chilectra, donde rediseñó los procesos de negocio de forma exitosa.

Saavedra Pizarro - ingeniero electricista, especialista en potencia y controles automáticos, con más de 35 años de experiencia de orden comercial, técnico, de administración y consultoría en empresas distribuidoras de electricidad de países de Suramérica y Centroamérica.
Written by: Sajomero, 9 Sep 2010 2:50 PM
From: United States, Del primer Santiago de America....y el mejor!!!
Welcome back Dreads, how was your holiday???
Written by: ConsultorSistemico, 9 Sep 2010 5:44 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead, US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)

Thank you very much dreadlocks for writing "that is one powerful insight you just posted."

As you write about this country, but from the US, I will take that you mean DR. Once every 60 years or so, there are great or long depressions, which force political leaders to finally stop delaying what has to be done. This is one of those pressing times.

To be able to act, we need a critical mass of people as Margaret Mead suggests. My prediction is that the old electric power industry in the US (and the world) is about to be creatively destructed.

I am actually looking for "… thoughtful, committed citizens" to come to the Plan Dominicano de Desarrollo Sistémico (PDDS) Group in LinkedIn to participate with me in trying to help change DR for good.
Written by: hellborn25, 9 Sep 2010 8:54 PM
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
great move leo for ones, this Guy celso is really a man thats stands for something maybey theres stil hope for Dr.
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