Y no era Pa'Lante Que Ibamos?

Apparently this was deemed not worthy of mention:

Citizens lose civil right
The new Constitution agreed on by the PRD and PLD majority in Congress and the party leaderships includes a clause eliminating Dominican citizens' right to protest against violations of the Constitution or the violation of rules or judicial acts. The change was made on the grounds that citizens "do not have a true judicial or legally protected interest." This means that Dominicans will not be able to protest when they believe that laws, resolutions or decrees issued by the government are in violation of the Constitution, as reported in El Caribe.

People ARE TO BUSY WETTING THEIR PANTIES ABOUT Mr. Cisneros BULTO PRONOUNCEMENTS.

After Lie-onel Fernandez asked him to make some news if you catch my drift!

juanb,

Here is another gem from the criminal enterprise called the PLD;

President to appoint prosecutors?

Diario Libre editor Adriano Miguel Tejada believes that institutional progress should be kept out of political deals, but writes about a recently approved change that he says represents a setback for justice in the DR.
He claims that the new Constitution has taken a retrograde step when it comes to state prosecution. The political party leadership agreed that the President has the prerogative to appoint and replace any prosecutor. The Fernandez judicial reform had permitted advances for prosecutors to receive training and become career officials, but now the President can replace them at any moment. "The message could not be more perverse," writes Tejada. "What they are telling the prosecutors, in these times of war on drug trafficking is, 'Go grab all you can because you don't know how long you will be kept in the job!'"

continued:

He makes the point: "And all, apparently, because future Presidential Palace incumbents want to have a free hand to allocate jobs. "
He goes on to ask, "How can the PLD agree to destroy one of their best contributions? Is it because everything in this country is negotiable?"
For years, civil society groups have called for independence of the prosecuting arm of justice. This was only partially achieved, with some progress made in training career prosecutors. However, this political decision means a major setback for the judiciary.

Source DR1

Y no era Pa Lante Que Ibamos, Ricky Romana?

Fujimori es sentenciado a 6 años de cárcel por corrupción en su último juicio.



Does this mean there is hope?

juanb,

There is always hope my brother, remember as the poet says, 'it is always darkest before dawn!"

Although in METROLANDIA its dark in more ways than one, but you get my point :)!

Juanb'

If the citizens can't protest, does this mean the citizens as a whole can file class actions to protest instead.

It is instructive to note that there has been a subtle, but forceful, subjigation of opinion by the elected head of State and his cohorts.
This subtle change has been some 6 years in the making, and is now rearing it's ugly head in such matters as a citizens right to redress through Constitutional changes, the promulgation of such being the exclusive prerrogative of the Legislative Bodies to deal with such at their convenience and desire.
These same Political bodies and their attendent Parties have designed and implimented a course of action that totally eliminates adversity from the Public Sector.
History teaches us that when such takes place, we are placed at the exclusive mercy(??) of the ruling segment of Government.
Such a position forced on the Public as a whose, belies the accepted interpretation of Democratic Government and relagates such a Government to that of a Dictatorship by Committee, by a single collective entity, and/or by a single individual.

TexasBill

Joselocks , it is absolutely no good asking me anything about the electricity industry in this country as I am totally in the dark