December 2, 2008 (LPAC)--In an ongoing series of media interviews, LaRouche representative in the Dominican Republic, Jorge Melendez, is shining a spotlight on the dirt that is George Soros, while offering LaRouche's proposals as the only alternative. On Nov. 27, Melendez was interviewed once again, this time by the radio station Tentacion, 102.5 FM on the program "Recuento." Melendez's comments were part of a panel discussion, which was broadcast again the next evening at prime time.
The first question was posed to Melendez, asking for his comments on the event that had just been held in the D.R. the previous weekend, entitled "The Global Financial Order: A Regional Perspective," which had been organized jointly by the UN's Economic Commission on Latin America (ECLA) and Dominican President Leonel Fernandez. Soros, among others, had keynoted that event. Melendez said that Soros was a known megaspeculator who bears part of the blame for the current economic disaster and, even more seriously, is a known proponent of drug legalization, financing a series of NGOs that are working zealously for the legalization of illegal narcotics.
Melendez continued that, unfortunately, the results of last weekend's meeting, like that of the G-20 and the latest APEC meeting in Lima, have demonstrated the abject failure of the world's leaders to deal with the worst economic crisis of the past 100 years. Melendez pointed out that, as LaRouche has been saying, what is urgently needed is not reform, but the bankruptcy reorganization of the world's financial system, precisely the opposite of the sickly--or worse--proposals that have been coming out of these meetings, which insist on protecting the very free trade policies which are at the root cause of the crisis.
One of the members of the panel discussion commented that it looked like the fox has been put in charge of "reforming" the henhouse, and that what is clearly needed is putting behind bars those responsible for the crisis which, as a former central bank governor of the D.R. said, is a moral crisis above all.
Melendez responded that such an evaluation was incompetent, and that people must turn to LaRouche, the economist who transformed economics from an ideology into a science, and that therefore he is the only one to indicate both the precise nature of the crisis and its consequences, and the means to save humanity from those consequences. He said the crisis is not merely a moral crisis, nor it is a crash, but rather an ongoing process of disintegration, and that the world's leaders cannot wait any longer to launch the bankruptcy reorganization of the international financial system, or it will be too late.
We must not wait until next April to hold yet another meeting, said Melendez, since world production is already collapsing to disastrous levels. He pointed to the wave of layoffs ongoing in the D.R., the rapidly declining remittances from abroad upon which the economy depends, the collapse of tourism in the country, and so forth. We must defend humanity, and the LaRouche movement has for years been defending the 80% of the population whose very survival is now in danger.
