There have been Electricity Solutions from Time to Time

Under the title “Dialogue vs Diálogo” I published a message on the GMH blog that says: “This was the presentation I made on the Diálogo Nacional of 1998. Early in the morning I distributed copies of a version of my presentation. As it seem that it could be approved by the assembly, there was a quick action on the part of the capitalization proponents and then came to the place a group of defenders of the government model. The results of the vote was almost tied, but the capitalization won. My proposal was out so of epoch that I was called from Metaldom to introduce changes to it. Countries´ progress should not be based on “dialogos” that are really debates: one win and the other loses. Countries´ progress result when only one person who is right in a large group has the opportunity to go beyond a debate, by means of a dialogue to show what is in the country interest. It is necessary to change the system for the benefit of society.

In response to my message, Mr. Armando Rodríguez, Seaboard´s Generator Head, made a very important comment on the electricity solution. He wrote: José Antonio, I have 16 years working with you and other Dominican and foreign professionals in the Dominican electric sector and I have witnessed the majority of your of your proposals, many are very interesting proposals which if they were acted on today´s situation would be different and the others were to point out why many of the decisions to be made were to fail.

This work that you have presented again curiously is an example of both since you make a very interesting and feasible proposal that constructively critizeces the decisions made at that moment.

I think that what has been missing in the country is trust in their own people and to be pragmatics in such a way as not to be guided necessarily by models that have worked in other countries without even evaluating the scenarios that might result from them under the conditions that the Dominican Republic has.

The translation might not reflect exactly the original.