Regrets
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Original in Spanish
Guillermo Endara, who in spite of his reputation is nobody’s fool, and who is in my view—I must confess it—a kind of national hero for having pulled the country out of the economic and social abyss in which the dictatorship left it, made some statements yesterday—in his own style—that have brought out a rash in the highest spheres of the government. He said, in short, that Her Excellency the President of the Republic is behaving like a Carnival Queen; that she hands out gifts left and right; that she still has the secret fund of 6 million dollars a year that she herself so criticized Pérez Balladares for; and that she wants to have the presidential security guarding the Canal instead of making sure nobody stages a coup against her.
Alfredo Arias, Alcibíades Vásquez and many other figures of the government of the day regretted these statements. Personally, I regret only one thing: that they are accurate.