Little by little, I'm seeing my country moving forward.

Another foriegn company getting a contract and all the Dominican nationals and those throughout the diaspora get Bupkis, as usual.

¡Eh Pa’lante que va todo el mundo con este gobierno, excepto los Dominicanos por supuesto!

beans they get beans?

All the skeptics will be proven wrong when DR has a .900 human development index by 2023!

Unfortunately all the technology cannot change the basic, underlying issue which is the overbearing corruption associated with everything in the governmental process, including the customs department. The introduction of DR-Cafta should have provided an opportunity to revise the process but it has not. I doubt that introducing the Koreans will modify the principles of the Dominican ways of life. The bottom line is that it needs to come from the top line but it could never happen as, if there was a regime in place to do so, it would be violently dissolved.

Josean: get a life or move back to Haiti, "ungrateful".............

I think Leonel could find a cure for AIDS and cancer, save 140 people from a burning building, invent a time machine, find a way to travel faster than light all in the same day and Josean would still find something negative to say about him, LMAO!!

The truth is not negative it is simply the truth.

Examples

Lie-onel Fernandez pro METRO 100%, pro Education 0% result Dominicans not prepared for business opportunities!

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=54594

Lie-onel neglects heath care, most recent result 3rd highest rate of tuberculosis in the WORLD!

Lie-onel neglects agriculture, results food prices rising daily!

Lie-onel talks about Democracy and how superior his ideas and the PLD are to govern, but sacred to death to debate publicly, one on one face to face, with the other presidential candidates!

Lie-onel talks about transparency, reduction of unnecessary government jobs and austerity, but authorizes stealing via secret payrolls, using the money he is robbing via the choking taxes he has imposed on the Dominican masses to get himself reelected!

Let me know when you would like more highlights of the Dons "positive" accomplishments.

JRRubirosa and Edward, you can't reason with an unreasonable person. I believe Josean gets a kick out of getting people's frustrations to show. He likes the attention and thus he prefers spending his days typing and posting mumble jumble stuff on this site. But his little mind's only capable to process two things: 1) negative comments against president Fernandez, and 2) negative comments against the Metro project. You will probably never read anything else coming from him other than the occasional whinnying about mistreatment of Haitians and how terrible Dominicans in general are.

small things amuse small minds

Josean I know that the PLD and Leonel are not perfect, but in the 8 years he's been president the country has improved a lot and we have to give them credit for the positive things. I don't agree with everything the government does, but I look at the glass half full instead of half empty.

It's a shame when the litmus test to see if someone is a good president or not in the dominican republic comes from comparing them to what came before. "At least he's not doing this" and "at least he's not doing that" doesn't cut it if you ask me. Elected officials in DR need to be held up to a higher standard then Mejia or Balaguer. Please. I understand what josean is saying and he does have valid critiques. Yes Fernandez has governed the state better then his predecessors so far but so what? It doesn't mean he should be canonized or even given room to breath. The Dominican people should demand and expect more from this administration. The clientilistic manor in which the state has been run throughout the republics history has been perpetuated by this man, that alone is a horrible legacy. Yes, Leonel has been more comptetent than his succesor Mejia but I expected some serious institutional change from Fernandez that never materialized and never will. The same old drama is being played

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The same old drama is being played out with different actors, that's all.

Dominicans could demand more from the government, but what they really should ask them self is not, what will this country do for me? but, what can i do for this country to make it better? Leonel is only one man, theres 10 million people living in Dominican Republic and a lot of those like to spend the day in the bodega drinking beer and complaining about the situation in the country.

cibaeño, Viva el Cibao!

"It's a shame when the litmus test to see if someone is a good president or not in the Dominican republic comes from comparing them to what came before."

Exactly! When the bar is set so low, that the standard of progress is to compare yourself to Hipolito, we are in a very sad state of affairs!

I have many close friends who are members of the PLD and when Mr. Fernandez came on the political scene they tried to sell me on him. For some reason I was always very cautious although I believed since he had been trained well by Dr. Bosch he had the potential to do a good job.

Now several of my friends tell me we apologize for criticizing your caution and skepticisms.

The guy is simply a phony and a fraud and very dangerous with his sweet intelectual rhetoric. He has, unfortunately, a large percentage of the populous a sleep!

You should see how many, otherwise brilliant friends of mine, constantly continue to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Cibaeno75: So Who You and Your buddy Josean endorse and recomend to be the next president in Dominican Republic???

I already know the answer but will hold my breath to give You my response.........

What happens to Josean is very simple He is so "Negative" and "offensive focus" against Dominican Republic on his opinions that anybody with a simple "IQ" , will make common sense assumptions where He is comming from and Where you comming from "Cibaeno75"

You call me last time "cabeza dura" "necio" and something else so let's see what happens next..

"You call me last time "cabeza dura" "necio" and something else so let's see what happens next.."

I just called you "necio" (you can go back and check yourself). I never called you "cabeza dura". You just called yourself that. LOL. A freudian slip if there ever was one.

SAY GOODBY TO SMUGGLING. Every day is a victory day for Dominican Customs. People are learning to pay their dues to the government and to do business fast and clean on line. Grain to grain the crop of the chicken will be full.

AMAZING! How people still try to talk about with josean. I can’t understand from any point of view the waist of time rebuffing josean his nasty and malicious commentaries. He is a paranoid that finds pleasure saying all kind of non sense against the DR, so one idiot try to engage in “I say, you say”. This is not a chat room. Make your comment al let josean spill and smell his own vomit. The more you attack this little fellow, happiest he will be. Get it!

I am not getting it....is there a secret code...where can I get the secret decoder ring ?