Dominican Catholic Bishops denounce corruption and social inequality

 
The Dominican Episcopal Conference (EDC) reported that corruption robs the Dominican people of economic resources that should be used for education, housing, food, health, security, justice and pay decent wages.In his pastoral letter on the occasion held on Thursday (tomorrow) 21 Day of the Virgin of Altagracia, in the Catholic tradition known as the Spiritual Mother and Protector of the Dominican people, the bishops expressed concern about problems Comoa citizen insecurity, crime and corruption in the state administration in general and in the judicial system.Also, the bishops condemned social inequality, in addition to increasing social inequality.
On the political side, the Catholic bishops criticized that part of politics as a business, despite the promises made by candidates.
"We are concerned how corruption deprives the population of funds to be earmarked for basic needs: education, housing, food, health, security, justice, living wages. Another gesture of ruthlessness, to the detriment of development is the collection of "tolls" to investors, instead of estimulárseles scares them. Corruption creates a scandalous inequity and social inequality, widening the gap between people who have become rich as if by magic, no other justification than having gone through the public administrative train and a vast majority of honest people barely surviving with the effort of a lifetime of work, "they denounced the bishops.
"Unfortunately impunity and complicity have been the best allies of the corrupt political systems worldwide. Impunity is the best way to encourage corrupt to appropriate the property of the people and at the same time a way of evil educate new generations. The impoverished victims of the corrupt system, they beg for mercy to be returned to him what rightly belongs to them to live with dignity, "they said.