L.Foreign currency remittances from Dominicans living abroad are a kind of cash cow for the maintenance of our economy.
Just last year, amid the severe plague of the pandemic, remittances amounted to more than $ 8 billion, a formidable injection of new resources into a paralyzed economy.
That money symbolizes the solidarity and sacrifice of the Dominicans of the diaspora with theirs here.
It is a kind of nourishment in poor families who cannot survive alone with some mediocre help from the government, let alone in a climate of anemia caused by the crisis.
There has been a great stir by the proposal by the Dominican consul in New York, Eligio Jáquez, to impose a levy to finance development projects for the benefit of the diaspora.
Over time, however, the government turned it down, finding it illogical and unworkable.
More than both qualifiers, which could be called unfair, offensive and inappropriate.
Since no one can interfere with the will of the person relinquishing the aid, nor with the destination the beneficiary wants to give it, it alienates resources earned, saved and donated by Dominicans without the government having art or being part of that. profits.