BOOK PRESENTATION: Policing DISSENT Social Control and The Anti-Globalization Movement, by Prof. Luis A. Fernández
The End of Diplomacy Emmanuelli
By Rolando Jiménez, JD, LL.M
in recent years from death Rafael Cordero Santiago, we have been describing in columns and radio programs such as Ponce and the Southern Region have been experiencing an increasing loss of political power. This
define political power as the ability to make the ruling elite, partisan and selfish northern metropolitan area, responding to the demands of economic development in the South and other regions of Puerto Rico.
The bulk of public investment in Puerto Rico has always been made in the metropolitan area. Projects like the Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot, the Super Aqueduct, the Tren Urbano, the Convention Center and major highways in continuous improvement or reconstruction, are made without being asked to account those municipalities where they are built. When
has told Jorge Santini, Ramon Luis Rivera, Hector Aponte Oneill or who has that ¨ ¨ or respond repay these investments economically. These investments are made for the benefit of the metropolitan, and yet protected by the argument that are strategic, we pay all Puerto Ricans. Rafael Cordero Santiago
development and political power bent a little balance in our favor by bringing together multi-sectoral and supra-partisan forces that allowed him courageous and vocally claim the rights of our Region and City. Cordero Santiago
When he was alive, no one in San Juan was afraid to tell that to achieve a strategic infrastructure project for Puerto Rico, had to test the ability of repayment ¨ ¨ Municipality of Ponce. Investment commitments of more than one billion who managed Cordero Santiago to Ponce resulted from the political soft spot and not from the generosity of the central government.
The political soft spot Cordero Santiago was premised on a strong defense of what was for us over the metropolitans who opposed. This pate statement taken as a badge of identity and powers ° Ponce is Ponce and the rest is parking ¨.
Strengthening political culture agglutination-based forces consensus Cordero Santiago guaranteed him a great influence elections in the rest of the country that made the northern bureaucrats attend. The consensus of local and regional citizens remain in force, which was lost loyalty and willingness of politicians.
Cordero Santiago's death and the succession of executives and municipal executive submissive, sectarian and incompetent have put paid to that political power and therefore the central government has done and waste our rights with impunity. The answer to this horror claque diplomacy policy has been a softy for little letters and meetings to negotiate.
such submission is to the north that contemporary politicians do not even dare to repeat the famous slogan Ponce affirmation of identity and power.
This erosion of power has led to the derailment of all projects and strategic initiatives, which if implemented timely and punctual, they served as a business model to take Puerto Rico from stagnation and dependence that we suffer today.
The abandonment and destruction of strategic plans and initiatives include the Land Use Plan of 2004 that managed Cordero Santiago, with its registered investment works bill establishing commitments of more than one billion dollars, the Ponce en Marcha Plan that languishing since 1992, Act 212, which was settled by the infamous Act 7 and destroyed hundreds of viable projects that would bring more than two hundred million dollars of private investment to the town of Ponce, and finally, the last two two years, the death of Puerto de las Américas Rafael Cordero Santiago.
If all these projects and initiatives were in place, Ponce and the Southern Region and have the essential tools to direct their economic future and plan effectively for DISUR intermediation.
All executives and municipal executive who succeeded Cordero Ponce Santiago have betrayed the dreams of economic development of our city and Southern Region.
Although this problem has been saying in the press and Active Forces Southern, these leaders have chosen to bow to the interests of its centralized political parties in San Juan, and conviction or fear, did not claim what the law is up to our City and Region. Tan
devastating has been the drain on power of Ponce and the Southern Region in two years hegemonic PNP administration, the Port of the Americas is paralyzed because the central government does not want to invest until he says the ability to establish ¨ ¨ repayment Municipality of Ponce.
many times Fortuño and governor have said alteregos Port is a strategic project for Puerto Rico. Why else is of such importance, Ponce has to pay for this investment.
This problem is compounded when one considers that it is vox populi that the Mayor be persuaded to be deleted from the Memorandum of Understanding a clause that protected us from having to pay $ 250 million investment in the Port.
No wonder, Perez Riera, Fortuño and his claque, or jokes when the Mayor decided not to renew the Memorandum of Understanding on 30 September 2010. Mayor did not protest because he had lost through action or omission the only clause that protected them from having to pay back 250 million. This is something that it is entitled to explain and we will discuss another time.
Today, few politicians speak of the Territorial Plan and certified investment works. Few politicians say that this is a right that is essential to fighting and rescue. But worse, the few that speak of these matters will not have the tools necessary to secure these rights claim, because they have not been able to consolidate political power enough to approach the game, or worse, because they are people who think that party goes over the wishes and aspirations of their constituents and the people swarm into sects dividing agringoladas.
It's time to bring together and realign forces. But not just about politicians unable to wean the party. But around the Crowd. Around this mass of Southerners with the willpower and desire to excel, that wrongly delegated its future in irresponsible and incompetent people who betrayed our dreams and aspirations.
addition, parallel and care by 2012, it is time to compel politicians incisively:
1. What were the specific actions you have taken to promote the development of Ponce and getting them to perform infrastructure work embodied in the Spatial Plan.
2. What are the specific actions that you agree to take in this direction in their future political position.
3. Is prepared to sue the central government to meet its commitments, even if dominated by the same party you.
But not limit ourselves to this.
It is time to end the fear and weakness. It is time for citizen action, spontaneous, strong, horizontal, heuristics, courageous, creative and proud.
is time to rescue from the street our rights. This already is brewing. Reached the end of diplomacy.
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