The head of one of the Dominican Republic’s largest union of bus owners today fired back at the cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, who had stated yesterday that those unionist must ask the country’s forgiveness for their actions.Juan Hubieres, head of the Fenatrano bus owners union, stated that it’s the senior catholic prelate who should ask forgiveness for his alleged misdeeds agaisnt the Dominican society.
“He has to ask forgiveness for the burning of the jail at Higuey, for what the priests did in San Rafael del Yuma, for what father Meregildo did, for the crimes which he ignored by Balaguer,” said Hubieres this Friday morning in an interview on CDN Channel 36, in reference to major scandals involving Catholic prelates, and the late ex-president Joaquin Balaguer.
His statement comes in the wake of criticism by the Dominican Catholic Church’s Cardinal yesterday, who affirmed that the heads of the country’s bus unions should ask the Dominican people’s forgiveness for their actions, in reference to a recent strike in which several workers were severely burned when a protester hurled a firebomb into the bus they were on.
The row is expected to continue in view of the two personalities’ known tendency to stand their ground.
Hubieres, along with other heads of the national transport unions, have been described as “the country’s owners” for their ability to intimidate the authorities with apparent impunity.
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