00:00Liston Diario presents the editorial from the director.
00:30This case is not an isolated error.
00:33It is the repetition of an alarming pattern, as demonstrated by the recent case of young
00:37Abel Ricardo Santos Santos, who also disappeared while in prison.
00:42Citizens have been reported missing, and their families have been plunged into anguish,
00:47while the institution that should protect them has kept them incommunicado in their own cells.
00:53Authorities announced pompous search operations.
00:55The cruel irony is that they were looking for a man they already had under lock and key.
01:01Incompetence or deliberate cover-up?
01:03The National Police's inability to track a detainee in its own facilities for more than 48 hours
01:08is not a simple procedural failure.
01:11It is blatant evidence of a rotten system where basic protocols, the court order, the fiscal registry,
01:18the right to communicate with a lawyer or family members, are dead letters.
01:22It is the hallmark of arbitrary, illegal behavior typical of authoritarian regimes.
01:29The institutional silence during those crucial hours was not passive.
01:33It was actively complicit in the psychological torture inflicted on the journalist,
01:38his loved ones, and the entire journalistic core.
01:41We demand more than explanations.
01:44We demand accountability for this episode.
01:46Who ordered the arrest of Edward Ramirez?
01:50Which judge endorsed it and which prosecutor registered it?
01:53Who gave the order to keep him incommunicado?
01:56And why was his whereabouts hidden from his superiors and the nation?
02:00The colleague's reappearance doesn't close the case.
02:03It opens it.
02:04It is living proof of an intolerable police practice
02:06that turns police stations into administrative kidnapping centers.
02:10Dominican democracy cannot allow its security forces to act as an organization outside the law.
02:16For Listine Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.
02:20For Listine Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.
