The US, Danilo and Leonel

I think that U.S. intelligence decided to pull Leonel Fernandez out of the game; not due to disaffection, but rather because he became unusable to give stable continuity to the institutionalized purple dictatorship.*

The U.S. is opting for revamping the institutionalized dictatorship, a dictatorship that has eroded the traditional opposition (PRD-PRM, PRSC). And this while the functional one-sidedness of its system of domination was disintegrating. Their first contribution was leveling the obstacle posed by the new nomination of Leonel Fernandez, then the elimination of the ban on re-election, in order to favor the re-nomination of President Danilo Medina.

It’s no accident that The Wall Street Journal rehashed the Super Tucano** issue. Nor is the U.S. ambassador’s anti-corruption stance expressed in support of the attorney general or the presidency, much less the releasing of Quirino Paulino’s selective testimony that tends to tear Leonel’s projects to shreds.

This is not unrelated to the judicial process which, under the momentum of the Public Prosecutor’s Office dependent on the executive power, has been an instrument against Felix Bautista, with political impact tied to the ex-chief of state.

If the drug lord Quirino has the gringos on his tail, Quirino who know how to work the convict files on people they’ve extradited in order to blackmail and burn the cards they’ve carefully played, then this country’s attorney general has the established interests in the National Palace behind him.

The interview with the drug lord, which to me confirms that it was really him talking and not some other guy, was like a partial “knockout” to that PLD (the Dominican Liberation Party) puppet, induced by the powerhouse already mentioned. The interview is causing a tendency for change in the political-electoral spectrum as well as changes in the polls based on comparisons with an earlier Leonel before he went totally flat while still in the ring.

Something different, but similar in that he is another discarded figure, can be seen in Hipolito Mejia, when he ran for president. His candidacy was tarnished and so was discarded by the U.S. and the dominant Creole class.

The desire to give new life to the pro-systemic opposition will be next, but always within the imperial priority of continuing to revive and renew the purple dictatorship with the continuity of Danilo in tune with its interest to block the institutional overhaul through the popular and sovereign constituent.

Crossing the gap between Danilo and Leonel will only accelerate the racist anti-Haitian movement and the isolation of the fascist right.

The U.S. seeks to cleanse itself from the filth generated and protected by the empire and to appear to be something it’s not. The U.S. provides support to the option that most people sympathize with it in exchange for the license to continue its voracious mining and its military expansion on the island.

*Editor’s Note: Leonel Fernandez was former president of the Dominican Republic and served from 1996-2000 and from 2004-2012.

**Editor’s Note: The “Super Tucano” refers to the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano military aircraft.