48 years after the murder of the journalist Orlando Martinez Howleyvarious political and social organizations, and the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) demand that justice be done, they also invited to fight so that do not regress public libertiesagainst corruption, fight for the environment and natural resources and a true state of rights.
Dozens of people, including: UASD professors; political leaders and movements of the left and right, as well as relatives and friends, gathered yesterday at the place where Orlando Martínez was killed on March 17, 1975, with an offering and distribution of 48 flower branchesone for each year of the crime.
During the act, the political leader Narciso Isa Conde defined Orlando Martínez as a journalist with talent and friendly creative intrepidity, with a transforming thought, so his attitude towards life has transcended his time.
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Isa Conde took advantage of the scenario to expose that democracy with sovereignty, attempted in 1963 and 1965, was replaced by neo-coloniality, partidocracy and plutocracy, the latter increasingly preeminent and always loaded with sacred business cows.
Aurelio Henríquez, president of the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) deplored that 48 years after the murder of Orlando Martínez, the slogan is still demanding that justice be done to those who ordered the crime.
“Those who, for reasons of patronage, have not yet paid a single day in jail, were judged, due to pressure from journalists and friends of Orlando, those who executed the order, but not those who ordered it,” he said during his turn in the act.
While the vice rector of extensions of the UASD, Rosalia Sosacondemned the horrendous crime, 48 years ago, of those who paid with their blood for the premises of that house of higher studies.
He defined Orlando as an example for the world by being a victim of the authoritarian system that existed at the time, the 12 years of Dr. Joaquín Balaguer.
“He fought a lot for freedom of expression, and his last column he wrote was for the rights of a man who also fought for freedoms, Silvano Lora,” said Sosa, representing the UASD.
