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00:00The televident started Telematutino 11. Today is Tuesday, February 18, 2025.
00:10As always, I am grateful for the support you give us.
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00:38Today we have many comments of interest that we are going to try to pack in 15 or less than 20 minutes.
00:46Today we have Rafael Paz with us. He is president of the committee of the district of La Fuerza del Pueblo.
00:52And also a member of the political board.
00:55With Rafael Paz, who is one of the politicians who has a good speech, who is the owner of a good speech.
01:01We are going to talk about many topics of interest.
01:04We also have Dr. Luz Rosa Estrella, who in the end has her segment of psychology, but directed to the family.
01:14Gentlemen, yesterday the president of La Semanal spoke of corruption in the provinces.
01:21I believe that the greatest corruption is in the capital.
01:24Because as they said before, it is in the capital where the checks are made.
01:28Now there is a transfer, but it is in the capital.
01:31And then he signed a decree to create the presidential commission of transparency and anti-corruption.
01:40For me this has two readings.
01:44On the one hand, the president is feeling the avalanche of denunciations of corruption in his government.
01:52Look, there is Trump signing the executive order.
01:55Only here is a decree.
01:58There is an avalanche of denunciations in a government that its main flag,
02:08one of its main flags was the fight against corruption.
02:12And then the president even lists, I am going to read it so as not to quote from memory,
02:21he lists the actions that his government undertook in that matter.
02:28And he says, the president says,
02:34that there have been 47 denunciations submitted to the public ministry by the DGI,
02:40that is, the Governmental Ethics Directorate, 47.
02:47How many of those cases have been investigated and brought to justice?
02:52None.
02:54426 reports submitted to the PECA on anti-fraud and counterfeiting.
03:00What has happened with those cases?
03:01Nothing.
03:03And 108 processes canceled due to purchases and contracts.
03:07In addition, 160 resolutions have been registered that inhibit the registration of suppliers to functions.
03:15The president is saying, look, there is corruption, but here are the actions.
03:21So, in my opinion, this has a reading.
03:24In the face of this avalanche, the president does not want to go down in history as if his government
03:29is a corrupt government and passes the hot potato to a commission.
03:35My other reading, but well, here we have PECA,
03:40the Procuraduría Especializada para la Persecución de la Corrupción Administrativa,
03:46here we have the Contraloría, we do not have a Chamber of Accounts,
03:51we have the Governmental Ethics Directorate and we have the Purchasing Directorate,
03:55sorry, the Purchasing and Contracting Directorate.
03:59So, a second reading is that these organizations are inoperative.
04:04They are inoperative.
04:07So, I am now going to add them all, or add ethics and purchases,
04:14to see if they can face corruption.
04:18But the president gives a list of submissions that have not passed,
04:24of shipments to the PECA.
04:27Any of the two readings means a failure of this administration in the fight against corruption,
04:35because four and a half years have passed and there are cases submitted, yes,
04:40but of the previous government, of this government, there are no cases.
04:44What there is is denunciation.
04:46Many have been submitted and others are already vox populi.
04:50On the other hand, in the face of the question about the cases of slandered journalists,
04:56the president said that there must be a governmental policy
05:01that restricts access to state advertising contracts for media that defame,
05:06spread false news, or promote conducts that violate basic decency rules.
05:14That said, one would say, very good, president, very good.
05:19But when one goes into analysis in depth,
05:24the first thing we have to remember is that this government,
05:29and all those that preceded it,
05:31have fed the media
05:38that slander, the media that spread false news,
05:44and the media that violate basic decency rules.
05:50That is why there are many rich communicators,
05:54many mercenaries who go from government to government.
05:57I mean, it is the fault of the governments that have fed them.
06:03Now, if this government suddenly decides to break with that,
06:08I wonder who is going to classify,
06:13who is going to define which media slanders or defames,
06:20which media spreads false news,
06:22or which media violates basic decency rules.
06:28We know that, we know that.
06:31The communicators who are not in that,
06:34and the public knows who slanders, who defames,
06:40and many times defame an official,
06:46and slander him as a means of blackmail,
06:49and there are officials who yield.
06:50Yesterday, Guido Gomez-Mazara said it,
06:53he said, they can't slander me, I submit to it.
06:56There are others who don't, there are others who yield,
06:59and they chant.
07:01That is a strategy of certain media.
07:04I attack, and after I attack,
07:07then that official who has his little tail that they trample on,
07:11chants.
07:13But the idea is beautiful.
07:17But I'm worried about who is going to be the czar
07:20who is going to define who slanders,
07:23who spreads false news,
07:26and who violates basic decency rules
07:30with a Suez language,
07:33with a pro-CAS language.
07:37Which is,
07:40today, a big part of the communication in the Dominican Republic.
07:44And those are the successful ones,
07:46if success is measured by money.
07:48Now, if success is measured by you having a calm conscience,
07:53if success is measured by merit,
07:56and by the name you leave to your children and grandchildren,
08:01then that is something else.
08:04On the other hand,
08:06on the other hand,
08:09gentlemen,
08:11there are measures of coercion,
08:18a detainee,
08:20and several with preventive detention,
08:23nothing more and nothing less than a network
08:26that operated
08:29in Nizao,
08:33nothing more and nothing less than in the Nizao civil office.
08:38Employees,
08:40the director who is a fugitive,
08:42there are two fugitives,
08:45and they were dedicated to the task
08:49of using Dominican documents,
08:52falsifying documents,
08:54to give them to the Haitians
08:56and turn them into Dominicans.
08:58Not only do they violate
09:01a number of articles,
09:03but they are traitors to the homeland.
09:08Because the one who turns an illegal Haitian into a Dominican
09:12is a traitor to the homeland.
09:15Just as I wrote on Twitter,
09:18on X, sorry,
09:20now it's called X,
09:22that the one who is against deportations,
09:26the one who conspires with foreign or national institutions
09:34against migratory policies
09:37and against slander against the country,
09:40is simply a traitor to the homeland.
09:42As simple as that.
09:44So,
09:46that group of people are traitors to the homeland,
09:49because they are betraying sovereignty,
09:52giving false documents to the Haitians.
09:56And I think that this
09:58places in question the integrity
10:01of the civil state officials
10:04who depend on the Central Electoral Board.
10:07That is,
10:09if the civil registry
10:11is very bad,
10:15why can we turn a Dominican into a Haitian?
10:21But also
10:25citizens of other countries
10:28who are criminals
10:31or who are part of organized crime.
10:34That has already been seen.
10:37People linked to international organized crime
10:40with Dominican cedars.
10:42I think that the Central Electoral Board
10:45should investigate all the authorities
10:48or create a unit,
10:50I don't know if it exists,
10:52to check
10:54to check the authorities.
10:56Because what happened in Nizao
10:58is very possible
11:00that it is being replicated,
11:02that it is happening
11:04in other authorities
11:06and that we don't know.
11:08On the other hand,
11:10the arrest in Punta Cana
11:13of an alleged leader of the Sinaloa Cartel,
11:17one of the most criminal and impudent cartels in Mexico.
11:23The man's name is Efraín Sánchez Cabanillas.
11:26He was arrested at the Punta Cana airport
11:29leaving the country.
11:31Yesterday journalists asked President Abinader about this case
11:35and he said that he did not live
11:36in the Dominican Republic,
11:38but that he was in a tourist plan.
11:41This case is so attractive
11:43that even people linked to organized crime
11:47come on vacation.
11:49Either that man came to do a special job here
11:53or he is not the great leader,
11:55because a leader of a cartel
11:57is not going to leave Mexico,
11:59where he is safe,
12:01to a country where he has a close collaboration
12:04with the DEA
12:07to condemn drug trafficking.
12:11It is a truly strange case.
12:15Either he came here to do a job
12:17related to organized crime
12:20or he is not the great leader
12:22or the great narco
12:24that paints a court
12:26of the United States.
12:30On the other hand,
12:32on the 15th
12:33the World Day of Cancer in Children was celebrated.
12:40Cancer is a terrible disease.
12:43It is almost a death sentence.
12:47Those of us who have experienced it,
12:49I experienced it with my wife,
12:51who after 14 months of battle,
12:53lost the battle against cancer,
12:56but I think she won heaven.
12:58But it is terrible in the case of a child.
13:00I attended my wife in Houston,
13:01thank God I was able to attend her in Houston,
13:04but when you are going to die,
13:06you should not attend her outside or here.
13:09One of the most dramatic cases
13:11is when you see a child in a wheelchair
13:13with his head shaved
13:15and his skin grayish
13:17as a result of chemotherapy.
13:21That is why,
13:23yesterday I saw an activity
13:25of the Minister of Health,
13:27Víctor Atala,
13:29and of the First Lady,
13:31of Avinader,
13:33where it was announced
13:36that those children
13:39would be provided with free transportation,
13:42food,
13:44and I think that everything should be provided
13:47because cancer in a child
13:50is a terrible thing for the child
13:52and for the family.
13:54It is good that NASA,
13:56within its plans,
13:58the paid plans,
13:59the subsidized plans,
14:01take care of these cases,
14:03which are many.
14:05For example,
14:07they provide the data
14:09that only last year
14:11were detected
14:134,894 children with cancer.
14:18It is a very high number.
14:20Only last year,
14:23of which there are children of all ages,
14:26up to less than two years,
14:27from 0 to 5 years old,
14:29from 12 to 17 years old,
14:31and the highest incidence
14:33is leukemia,
14:35which is blood cancer.
14:37It is good
14:39that these families are assisted
14:42and that support is given
14:44because chemotherapy
14:46requires a special diet,
14:48and we are going
14:50to have mercy on those children
14:52who do not deserve,
14:54do not deserve
14:55to suffer from cancer.
14:57Nobody deserves to suffer from cancer,
14:59but much less,
15:01much less a child.
15:03In the international field,
15:05gentlemen,
15:07while we are calm here,
15:09Europe is on fire.
15:11There is a situation
15:13that some already qualify
15:15as imperial mismatch,
15:17because it turns out that in Saudi Arabia
15:19the United States and Russia
15:21are united.
15:23Marcos Rubio,
15:25the President of the United States,
15:27with the special envoy
15:29of President Trump
15:31to solve the war in Ukraine,
15:33and on the side of Russia,
15:35the Chancellor and another person.
15:37They are negotiating
15:39on the border of Ukraine
15:41and on the border of the European Union.
15:43Even
15:45with that mismatch,
15:47Trump's representative
15:49said that
15:51the European Union
15:53does not have to be sitting there.
15:55Because the European Union
15:57is the main supporter of Ukraine
15:59more than the United States,
16:01so that Trump
16:03does not take Ukraine,
16:05because Europe knows
16:07that if Russia takes Ukraine,
16:09then Poland follows
16:11and Europe is in danger.
16:14Europe for decades
16:17left its defense,
16:19its protection
16:21in the hands of the United States.
16:23Now, from good to bad,
16:25Europe does not have the weapons
16:27to face an attack.
16:29Europe does not have nuclear weapons
16:31and Trump, apparently,
16:33is backing him up.
16:35He is demanding that he invest
16:37more in NATO,
16:39but he excludes them
16:41from the negotiations.
16:43Marcos Rubio wanted to
16:45sublimate the subject a little
16:47and he declared that no,
16:49that later Ukraine would also
16:51participate in the negotiations
16:53and the European Union.
16:55They are clear
16:57that they are going through
16:59a difficult time
17:01where they do not have the resources,
17:03where they have a problem
17:05of Muslim migration
17:07and they have a president
17:09in the United States
17:11who definitively
17:13slapped them in the face.
17:15And then comes against them
17:17the issue of the aranceles.
17:19It is a complicated world situation.
17:21It is the formation
17:23of a new world order
17:25and if one is not attentive
17:27day by day,
17:29suddenly that world order
17:31is formed and it can affect us.
17:33It can affect us.
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18:17and we are going to the interview
18:18with Rafael Paz.
18:48The interview with Telematutino 11
18:50important people
18:52and to discuss important topics
18:54is accompanied by Mr. Rafael Paz.
18:56Rafael Paz
18:58is an interesting crossover
19:00because he
19:02was formed
19:04in the business world
19:06he was
19:08an important figure in Conex
19:10but he passed to politics
19:12successfully
19:14as I said at the beginning
19:16he has a record
19:18in the discourse
19:20of politicians
19:22that has a coherent discourse
19:24and he is currently
19:26president of the district committee
19:28of the people's strength
19:30and member of the political direction
19:32and a frequent guest
19:34of this program
19:36and also of the weekly proposal.
19:38Rafael, welcome.
19:40My dear Ramón,
19:42what a pleasure,
19:44what an honor to be here
19:46and to be able to talk to you
19:48but the most recent,
19:50the president yesterday
19:52created a commission
19:54of transparency
19:56and anti-corruption
19:58with the commission of ethics
20:00and with the commission of
20:02and with the
20:04purchasing direction.
20:06He talks about
20:08that he has received news
20:10of corruption in the provinces.
20:12I commented that the great corruption
20:14occurs here because here
20:16the checks are made
20:18and how do you give
20:20that commission,
20:22new commission of transparency
20:24and anti-corruption?
20:26Look, I think if we focus it
20:28from a historical perspective
20:30and from a current one
20:32I could tell you two things.
20:34The first thing is that
20:36when Dr. Balaguer did not want
20:38a topic to be resolved
20:40he designated a commission.
20:42That is...
20:44Sorry, and you were little
20:46when that commission was born.
20:48He did not want to resolve it
20:50in the Dominican Republic
20:52he designated a commission
20:54and the one who is listening to me
20:56resonates in his understanding
20:58of the idiosyncrasy
21:00of power in the country.
21:02The second thing is that
21:04if the president is changing
21:06the strategy at this time
21:08it means that
21:10his work in that area
21:12failed in his first administration.
21:14It is evident that there is
21:16a great discontent of the population
21:18in the Dominican Republic.
21:20The Dominican government
21:22shows recent numbers
21:24as a survey carried out
21:26by the public opinion firm
21:28or public image, sorry,
21:30incorporated,
21:32shows that it perceives
21:34the Dominican people
21:36that this is a government
21:38with high corruption rates.
21:40So, this is evidently
21:42a reaction to that perception
21:44of the Dominicans
21:46who feel that
21:48there are decisions
21:50that go against
21:52public finances,
21:54that with a lot of effort
21:56we contribute to the Dominicans
21:58through taxes every month.
22:00There is another important issue
22:02which is the issue of the Ausaíte.
22:04We already know that
22:06it is an issue that came from outside
22:08because of the closure,
22:10because of what was said
22:12in the statements of the Mosques,
22:14but here it was affected
22:16by a matter of a journalist
22:18who supposedly was on payroll.
22:20Then he retracted.
22:22But I would like
22:24a holistic, general view of the Ausaíte
22:27from the point of view
22:29of the approach given by Trump
22:31and also what apparently
22:33happened here with NGOs
22:35and with others,
22:37because there is a part
22:39that has been forgotten
22:41that there were pro-Haitian NGOs,
22:43pro-LGTB, etc.,
22:45which were effectively
22:46not enough to separate them.
22:48We are going to see
22:50how the issue arises
22:52and then we are going to see
22:54the effects in the Dominican Republic.
22:56The first thing to point out
22:58is that according to the US President,
23:00this is the biggest corruption scandal
23:02in the history of the United States,
23:04that through the Ausaíte
23:06thousands of millions of dollars
23:08were managed with the aim
23:10of first influencing
23:12the political agenda of other countries
23:14in favor of a particular ideology.
23:16Which is the woke ideology.
23:18Things have been discovered
23:20that go from financing
23:22certain media
23:24and the North American government itself,
23:26the Department of Governmental Efficiency,
23:28has said that it has found evidence
23:30of the financing of more than 6,400 journalists
23:33around the world
23:35and more than 600 media.
23:37This information
23:39has obviously not yet come out
23:41broadly,
23:43but some things are known.
23:44For example,
23:46a North American media called Politico
23:48was given 8 million dollars
23:50to promote
23:52inclusive communication.
23:54It is known
23:56that the BBC of London
23:58was given 46 million dollars
24:00to promote communication policies
24:02in favor of the trans community.
24:04It is known
24:06that in Colombia
24:08a trans parade was financed.
24:10It is known
24:12that in Guatemala
24:14gender change operations
24:16have been financed
24:18for the order of 2 million dollars.
24:20It is known
24:22that in Yemen,
24:24in Afghanistan,
24:26resources have been provided
24:28through Lausaid
24:30to organizations that have connections
24:32with Al Qaeda.
24:34That has been said
24:36by the North American government itself.
24:38I invite our viewers
24:40to see the presentation
24:42of Senator Kennedy
24:44This scandal
24:46has had an impact
24:48in more than 70 countries
24:50where Lausaid
24:52concentrated its operations.
24:54One of them is the Dominican Republic.
24:56It has been indicated
24:58that Lausaid
25:00in recent years
25:02has financed projects
25:04for more than 600 million dollars
25:06in the Dominican Republic.
25:08A set of non-governmental organizations
25:10have been identified
25:12where citizen participation,
25:1498% or 99%
25:16in several years
25:18of financing citizen participation
25:20in hard money,
25:22that is, in cash money,
25:24comes from Lausaid,
25:26comes from organizations
25:28linked to George Soros
25:30or comes from organizations
25:32financed in turn by Lausaid
25:34like Oxfam, for example.
25:36So,
25:38that is a reality.
25:40They are concrete,
25:42verifiable facts
25:44that the North American government
25:46that is already asking from the public
25:48to indicate
25:50places where
25:52there were deals
25:54linked to what they themselves
25:56have denounced,
25:58send their auditors,
26:00much more information will come out.
26:02That is a topic.
26:04The topic of NGOs,
26:06the topic of companies
26:08financed, like Monix, for example,
26:10in its entirety by Lausaid
26:12with the aim of changing laws
26:14as a fundamental platform
26:16the WOC vision
26:18that is linked
26:20let's say, to an agenda
26:22that promotes
26:24the inclusion of LGTBI groups
26:26that predominated
26:28during the democratic administration.
26:30That is the reality.
26:32Now, there is another dimension,
26:34the local dimension.
26:36In the local dimension
26:38there has been a great,
26:40a national squabble,
26:42a great discussion
26:44in other senses.
26:47Let's say that
26:49it is regrettable when
26:51accusations are made against people
26:53without having evidence
26:55about the facts that are affirmed.
26:58I think we have to separate,
27:00as I was saying
27:02to some people
27:04with whom I was having a conversation outside,
27:06the wheat of the Cizaña.
27:08There are people who have never had
27:10a link with the North Americans,
27:12but there are people
27:14who have had a link with the North Americans,
27:16who have been financed by the North Americans,
27:18who have worked for the North Americans.
27:20And I am convinced
27:22that an important political operation
27:24was set up here
27:26with the aim of favoring
27:28one of the political forces
27:30that coincides with the government party.
27:32Very good.
27:34In fact, there was a digital newspaper
27:36that was a scandal at the time
27:38that was financed by Lausaid.
27:40That is public.
27:42It happened years ago.
27:44And there were people
27:46who spoke out against that practice.
27:48And the directors of Dominican newspapers
27:50spoke out against that practice.
27:52So, now there are people
27:54who want to be the Swiss
27:56and say, well,
27:58this man who published
28:00that information
28:02or misinformation
28:04retracted.
28:06The subject is there.
28:08No, the subject is not there.
28:10This is the tip of the iceberg.
28:12When the auditors
28:14come to the Dominican Republic,
28:16this is the reality.
28:18Now, we have to wait.
28:20We have to wait.
28:22And the information will come out.
28:24If there is something that always floats,
28:26it is the information.
28:28Like the cork.
28:30And the U.S. government
28:32is very interested
28:34that this information comes out.
28:36Correct.
28:38That's how it is, Ramón.
28:40That's how it is.
28:42And it is regrettable
28:44that, for example,
28:46all the actions
28:48that we have seen in recent years,
28:50all the marches that we have seen
28:52in recent years
28:54to claim the rights
28:56of supposed apatrides
28:58have been financed by the U.S.
29:00People who have spoken out
29:02systematically
29:04in favor of the rights of the apatrides
29:06and I quote,
29:08because there is no apatridia here,
29:10because all of them are Haitian citizens
29:11in conformity with the Haitian constitution
29:13and in conformity with the constitution
29:15of the Dominican Republic.
29:17So, those organizations
29:19that act in perjury
29:21of the national interest,
29:23that want to distort the Dominican identity,
29:25have committed the sin
29:27of being financed
29:29by foreign interests.
29:31Or do you remember Ana Velique
29:33a few months ago
29:35raising the flag of Black Lives Matter?
29:37Yes, of course.
29:39They are not coincidences.
29:41They are part of an agenda.
29:43And Mr. Pierre was awarded
29:45by Hillary Clinton
29:47and by the wife of Barack Obama
29:49in the United States.
29:51Correct.
29:52In the White House.
29:54Correct, with the support
29:56of the main sponsor of those groups
29:58called George Soros
30:00through his Open Society Foundation
30:02which is the holding
30:04of Amnesty International.
30:06When I say holding,
30:08I mean the main house
30:09of those organizations
30:11is George Soros
30:13who is the figure
30:15who has been intervening in Haiti
30:17since the 90s
30:19and was the one who brought
30:21the Clintons to Haiti.
30:23I am not making this up.
30:25All of this is in the media.
30:27So, the Dominican Republic
30:29has to understand what its situation is
30:31in order to be able to strengthen
30:33and make decisions for the future.
30:35But, Rafael,
30:36we are talking about the pressure
30:38of the Democrats.
30:40The statements of the Secretary of State
30:42have been very clear
30:44regarding the Haitian issue
30:46and the Dominican Republic issue.
30:48That NGO no longer has funding
30:50to attack us
30:52nor does it have funding for others.
30:54So, I think it does not have
30:56a more comfortable position
30:58of President Abinader
31:00to truly apply a migratory policy
31:02according to our laws.
31:04I think so.
31:06I have been to the Dominican Republic
31:08four times.
31:10I am talking about the Director of the USAID.
31:12Why did she come to the Dominican Republic
31:14four times?
31:16She came to draw up guidelines
31:18as a pro-consul
31:20with all the power,
31:22the millions of dollars of the USAID
31:24that were invested in the Dominican Republic.
31:26So,
31:28what was one of the first actions
31:30that the Biden administration took
31:32in favor of the Dominican Republic?
31:34Blocking the sugar imports
31:36from the Dominican Republic.
31:38Sanctioning it.
31:40And all of that is part
31:42of the pressure on the Dominican Republic.
31:44I remember my years
31:46in the private sector,
31:48precisely the pressure
31:50of the Obama administration
31:52of the Department of Labor
31:54on the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Labor
31:56to accept a financing
31:58of 10 million dollars
32:00that included the recognition
32:02that in the Dominican Republic
32:04there was slave labor
32:06at that time.
32:08So, now
32:10the country has the opportunity
32:12to dedicate itself
32:14to what the United States is doing,
32:16to defend its national interest,
32:18to implement a migratory policy
32:20that is really effective.
32:22We have the challenge
32:24of deporting
32:26750,000 or 700,000
32:28illegal people
32:30in a condition, let's say,
32:32irregular in the Dominican Republic
32:34in the next three years.
32:36And we have to be able
32:38to solve a problem
32:40that is there, that people see,
32:42that people feel,
32:44that is affecting our labor market.
32:46Because they used to say,
32:48well, the construction and agriculture industry
32:50does not survive
32:52without foreign labor.
32:54But they are already in the motoconchos,
32:56they are already in the textiles.
32:58In other words,
33:00the penetration
33:02in the informality
33:04that is technically
33:06enormous,
33:08in the detriment of the Dominicans,
33:10the consumption of public services
33:12exceeds 20%,
33:14both in education and health,
33:16which are financed with the taxes
33:18paid by the Dominicans.
33:20So, this must be stopped.
33:22And that's why people like me
33:24have been denouncing
33:26the operation that was implemented
33:28in the Dominican Republic,
33:30because this can never happen again.
33:32It can never happen again.
33:34And I'm going to tell you something.
33:36Some of these actors
33:38have to be a little more tolerant.
33:43When I came here,
33:45I found myself leaving this space
33:47to Mr. Carlos Pimentel,
33:50current Director of Purchasing and Hiring,
33:54former Executive Director
33:56of Participación Ciudadana.
33:59And then he told me
34:01that we had crossed a line
34:03with the accusation
34:04against Participación Ciudadana
34:06that was personal.
34:08But every time they accused
34:10all the members of the opposition
34:12of being corrupt,
34:14in favor of the government
34:16they are a part of,
34:18didn't a personal line cross?
34:20Of course not.
34:22Because it's political action.
34:24And we are tolerant.
34:27It would seem that the levels of tolerance
34:29in those spheres
34:31are not
34:34appropriate or in line
34:36with democratic standards.
34:38That's why many want
34:40a bite-sized law
34:42that falls on social networks.
34:44Precisely because their levels of tolerance
34:46and because their affiliation
34:48to ideologies
34:50that promote totalitarianism
34:52in practical terms
34:54is there.
34:56It's evident.
34:58But here in the Dominican Republic,
35:00don't dream about it.
35:02There won't be a bite-sized law.
35:04We still have several issues
35:06of interest to discuss
35:08with Rafael Paz,
35:10President of the Committee
35:12of the National District of the People's Forces
35:14and a member of the Political Direction.
35:34Let's go now to local politics,
35:36the strength of the people.
35:38And you wanted to comment
35:40a little bit about USAID.
35:42Yes.
35:44Look, Ramón,
35:46the operation of that agency
35:48has to be scrutinized
35:50at such a level
35:52that we have to be very careful
35:54about what we say,
35:56what we say,
35:58what we say,
36:00what we say,
36:02what we say,
36:04and we have to verify
36:06in a clear way
36:08if the operation
36:10that was set up by Dr. Leonel Fernández
36:12to raise his rejection rate
36:14was financed with funds from USAID.
36:16Those mobilizations
36:18that seemed spontaneous
36:20after his departure from the government
36:22with a 55%...
36:24And popular judgments,
36:26and a lot of...
36:28Correct.
36:30All of that,
36:32all of that,
36:34which I would like to mention
36:36is that the American military
36:38is called PSYCHOP
36:40or Psychological Warfare.
36:42It is a soft power tool
36:44of military fight,
36:46let's say,
36:48political-military
36:50that was copied by USAID
36:52and that USAID used
36:54in a, let's say,
36:56incisive way in several countries
36:58with the goal of altering
37:00the political climate
37:02and doing what they call
37:04And according to some information that I have been receiving, it would seem that this operation to raise at some point what is called the rejection rate of Leonel Fernández, which came out in 2012 with an approval of 55%, it would seem that it was financed from outside the country.
37:26It would seem.
37:27It would seem.
37:28The information will come out.
37:30Let's go to the party, Rafael, because the congress has prolonged, perhaps a lot, the definition of the elections, of the changes.
37:42That is, the Franklin-Almeida-Ranciere congress has not yet concluded.
37:46Sorry, Manuel Otavarez, I'm confused with the numbers.
37:50Look, the process of transformation of the people's strength and modernization is divided into two parts.
37:56The first part, which is the Franklin-Almeida-Ranciere congress, which we call the part of statutory and conceptual review of the party, the organizational line, the position documents on issues of public policy, such as foreign policy, women's promotion policies, economic inclusion, etc.
38:17That ends on the next day, March 2, a great event that will be announced by the party, but it will be one of the great sports squares, in which the new statutes of the people's strength will be approved.
38:35All their documents, which have already been validated through a great national electronic assembly, with the vote of the presidents of the party and the media.
38:47And on that day, the works of what is the electoral congress will begin, where the authorities and the organizations will be renewed, both the presidency, the general secretary, the vice presidency, the political leadership, the central leadership, which is the largest body, as well as the territorial leaders, the presidents of the provinces, the presidents of the municipalities, and all the party's organizations.
39:13We will come back with a strengthened, modernized, renewed force of the people in their country's vision, but also in their work team.
39:24And we have carried out a wonderful audit process of our structures at the national level. I can tell you today that the strength of the people is a reality in every corner of the national territory, it is the main political force of opposition, and in places like the national district, it is already the main political force of the country, with 6 or 7 points above the PRM today.
39:48Capable of competing in the municipal elections in February.
39:52The strength of the people in the elections of February 2028 at the municipal level will obtain great victories in the main municipalities of the country and throughout the Dominican Republic, definitely.
40:06Because, in addition, all these works have served to build an organic local leadership on the basis of political work, not the use of the resources of the institutions.
40:19And that constant political work, linked to the community, will give birth to representatives, both legislative and municipal, who will make the Dominican Republic proud.
40:33I feel very proud of the work that my colleagues from the strength of the people have been doing, and of the profiles that have been strengthened.
40:42In the last interview we had a weekly proposal, it was very shocking to me, because you qualified the candidates of the PRM as the 17 Aurelianos, referring to 100 years of solitude and the short life of the 17.
40:59But this week I had a distinguished young strategist in communications, who said, I tried to put him on the subject, he said very well, but the problem is that the opposition is divided.
41:12That is, the government, although it does not take its main asset, which is Luis Abinader, is going to take a candidate or a candidate, but the opposition, after all, is divided.
41:24You can win like this.
41:26Look, today, Ramón, the strength of the people party, its two potential candidates, the two people that the people have visualized as the people with the greatest sympathy,
41:38which are Dr. Leonel Fernández and Omar Fernández, added, surpass all the candidates together of the PRM.
41:45That is the reality. That happens today. When you add the participation of the other opposition parties, the opposition today exceeds 54% in the Dominican Republic.
42:01Two points above the position I had two months ago. That is, there is a fall of the government monthly of one point, there is a rise of the opposition of one point every month.
42:14That is what has happened so far. So, the PRM has great difficulties and will have great difficulties.
42:21First, because there are political projects that are incompatible in there. There are levels of personal enmity and internal animosity that put at risk the process of selecting its candidate.
42:34There are people who do not speak, people who do not call by phone, people who are in a real confrontation today.
42:41And there is a genetic inherited from the PRD.
42:44Correct. In addition, as the President of the Republic, with the constitutional reform as the first political action, shot himself in the foot and became a lame duck, as the Americans say,
42:57a lame duck, four years before, his ability to be an internal harmonizer is very reduced.
43:02Notice that each official walks on his side and the President finds it difficult to manage that performance out of the book of his officials.
43:17Imagine with the presidential candidates.
43:19And he could not influence to impose one. Do you think he does not have the capacity?
43:23Look, everything can happen there and that is precisely the nature of the main conflict.
43:28So, as there are so many candidates, there are like 17 in reality, that is going to produce a mess in there.
43:35The PRM inherits from the old PRD its nature of confederation of groups and interests. Many of them are incompatible.
43:44For a time, in the year 2020, they managed to coincide around the figure of Luis Abinader and as the re-election was going, he did not have internal rivals and let's say that he cohesion all that political force.
43:56But in 2028, the reality will be different. Unlike the strength of the people, which has full harmony, which has a leader that cohesion to all the populists,
44:08which is Dr. Leonel Fernandez, which is our top leader and which has a political direction that marches, let's say, unified towards a purpose,
44:18which is to lead the country from the elections of 2028 towards a path of prosperity and well-being.
44:27That is our goal and according to that we are working.
44:31So, more than arguing that the opposition is divided, I think that here we have to talk about the internal atomization that the PRM has,
44:41of the evident growth that the strength of the people has had, which today as a party is placed at 42% and the positioning that we have in the main electoral markets.
44:53What has happened, for example, with the National District? Today the strength of the people has 7 points above the PRM.
44:58Why? Because the level of disappointment of the middle class in the absence of results.
45:03Tell me a work, a work in favor of the National District that the PRM has executed.
45:10The only thing they promised here was the monorail that goes to the church.
45:18Where is the monorail? It does not exist. There are no new schools.
45:25In what has the public education in the National District advanced? In absolutely nothing.
45:29The traffic, a disaster that also, there is something that I want to take advantage of to denounce.
45:36You who transit through the streets of the capital will have realized that there are hours where, in a strange way, the DGZs change the rhythm of traffic.
45:48You say, but why are they giving way to that route if they have not been giving way to this route for a long time?
45:54Ah, it is that now there is a list of approximately 300 people with the condition of VIP.
46:00And at the base of the DGZ they give preference to those people, including girlfriends, children of officials.
46:09So it's a serious complaint I'm making here. I'm not making this up.
46:14And that's why at 6 in the afternoon, at 5 in the afternoon, in the morning, in peak hours,
46:18you see that they are giving way to a line without any logical sense.
46:25Because the traffic of the capital is defined according to that list of VIPs that the DGZ has,
46:31which are high government officials, their relatives, who have preference in traffic.
46:37But let's go to the issue of the streets of the district. More than 100,000 holes in the National District.
46:42And the province of Santo Domingo, worse.
46:45Santiago. What has happened with Santiago?
46:47After having, let's say, an orderly management of the city,
46:51the Santiagoans have begun to see a deterioration in the management of their city.
46:58Although the government has a rather particular concentration in Santiago, in terms of public investment,
47:05the Santiagoans are already beginning to be disappointed with the management of the PRN.
47:11And they begin to place their eyes, where?
47:14In the party that cohesion to most of the society that is not satisfied today, in the strength of the people.
47:21Magnificent, Rafael Paz. As always, consistent and giving in the diana.
47:27I thank you for your participation.
47:29A pleasure.
47:30Now, like every Tuesday, we have Dr. Luz Rosa Estrella with her segment on psychology, but directed to the family.
47:39Greetings.
47:40Today we are going to discuss the fact of looking at the paternity and upbringing of our children as a great challenge.
47:51A challenge that challenges us.
47:54That puts us as if in a judge's cloth, rather ourselves, in our interiority, in our capacities.
48:02And that goes hand in hand with our own achievement.
48:08I saw a very sad scene, it hurt me a lot.
48:11A mother who said, I'm not working, I'm studying and taking care of these boys and I feel late.
48:20Because I'm just taking care of my two children.
48:23This impacted me and it hurt me a lot.
48:26And what happens?
48:28Here, this mother, who of course has many things on top and one understands her, is making the effort to study and I admire and bless her.
48:38However, this mother, in front of her four-year-old daughter, expresses herself in this way, with this negative emotional burden of her children.
48:49So in that sense, what do I want to invite and connect with you?
48:56To see paternity as this great achievement and development of ourselves as a person.
49:07At the same time, we have a great responsibility to train our children, to educate them in values and to give and guarantee the greatest well-being for them.
49:21But also for us, it is a challenge that leaves us a little naked, it leaves us declared.
49:28And there we can realize where our weaknesses are, where our weaknesses are.
49:38And it becomes, or we can turn it into the challenge of today.
49:45Because in this upbringing I am developing, but I am also the testimony, I am the example, I am the reason, the reason for the formation of this little creature.
50:00I am that testimony that will most impact on the way, on that how, is when I will leave the most impregnated in them a being, a being, a growing up, a yes you can, a yes I will learn, I will achieve, I will surpass myself in life.
50:24But if I do not connect paternity with those goals of personal improvement, then it may be that we are far from being good parents and living our paternity with a lot of pride, with a lot of joy, to also achieve very good goals.
50:45We continue in Telematutino 11.
50:53After the interesting interview of Rafael Paz, who will be on YouTube in a few minutes,
51:13the newspaper El Día will also be published tomorrow, digital at the bottom and also on my networks.
51:21And also Dr. Luz Rosetaria.
51:23Well, we say goodbye and see you tomorrow, which will be Wednesday, midweek.
51:28See you.
51:43.