Jose Luis Chavez

SANTO DOMINGO .- The official version is that printed weekly Clave and Clave Digital portal being closed for financial reasons, but that does not believe anyone. All signs and some unofficial information points to reinforce the idea that the two publications eventually succumbed to the intense and increasing pressures received by the owners of the means by certain sectors of Government.

Media Team The company had recently acquired a rotary valued at six million euros to improve journalistic production, which rules out of hand the argument of economic hardship. But also, if hypothetically there were these financial difficulties, logical and rational decision would be to reduce costs, as other companies have recently made news. Amen to that Abrisa Group seems to have overcome some of the difficulties affecting the operations of its mega tourism and real estate project, Cap Cana

Nor does it explain the closure of the site Clave Digital, a medium that began as a modest project was funded initially by journalists almost founders. What accounts together with the printed weekly also produced the closing of the digital medium, which could support up without support Hazoury Group, owner of Media Team.

It was reported that Abrisa Group, headed by the Hazoury family had taken the decision to close the two newspapers in the month of September, yielding to the pressures and threats of official sectors. The pressures have intensified after the publication of the weekly Key of a story about alleged links to the police chief, General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin, with Spanish Time Arturo Marquez, owner of the tower and charged Atiemar drug shipments entering in Spain in vans from Dominican ports.

But apparently the trigger for the decision factor was the information that came to the director of Key and Key Digital, Fausto Rosario Adames, the murder of Sergio Rafael Rojas medical physiatrist Soriano would have occurred by mistake, since the aim of the attack was a newspaper executive who also walked through the Botanical park setting that supposedly had a certain resemblance to the victim. It is not said formally, but everyone who has followed the issue are convinced that the newspaper executives included in the alleged plot is Rosario Adames, whose age and physique matches the doctor's murder.

The question that many ask is how researchers have learned that this was the real plan of the robbers or assassins. Would not it be the version used to scare Fausto Rosario Adames, and incidentally to send a warning signal to work as a journalist with a degree of critical independence.

In a commentary in the latest edition of key Weekly entitled "In a criminal plan," the paper echoes the version that the purpose of the gunmen was killed newspaper executive. It also reveals the comment shortly after the bloody event, a police officer called to a meeting of newspaper executives. Key concludes that knows where the plans of aggression.

In the same edition of the weekly Key appears in the "Record Off", a short paragraph with a picture of General Juan Manuel Fructuoso, director of the Central Criminal Intelligence of the National Police. The note said that General Fructuoso "is a man of action who knows where to dig. He knows well where to aim in matters pertaining to his office. It's cold and we're sure you can not go wrong. "

Unofficially it is said that General Fructuoso was "high official" called a key executive to give the story that the death of the physiatrist Rojas Soriano would have occurred by mistake, since the purpose was to assassinate a newspaper executive that as the doctor walked every morning around the Botanical Gardens.

However, the official version offered by the police about the killing of Rojas Soriano is that he was assaulted to strip him of a firearm, a report has generated very little credibility in the corridors of opinion.

Meanwhile, the closure of the newspaper Clave and Clave Digital is part of the unenviable record of Dominicans forced the media to practice self-censorship for reasons related to the intolerance of a formally democratic government. With the caveat that this should not happen even during the dictatorship illustrated the first twelve years of Balaguer.
(Luis José Chávez)