Controversial Financing By The Government
The newspaper has been characterized as propaganda for the New Progressive Party since El Vocero allegedly receives funds from the NPP-controlled central government. According to an investigation by the newspaper El Nuevo Día, the company has received more than $24.9 million, even when it had a debt of $21,141,200 in taxes. El Vocero's editor-in-chief has responded by stating that neither the newspaper nor its parent company have received government funds through any means, and dismisses El Nuevo Día's allegations as part of a series of attacks driven by the newspaper's new-found success as a free publication.
Read more about this topic: El Vocero
Famous quotes containing the word government:
“There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation’s public school system entitled “Savage Inequalities,” Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)