In times past, politicians also took advantage of the Christmas period to distribute toys to poor people in a similar way.
The video went viral this Monday, December 27, 2021. In the images, a person is seen throwing balls from the balcony of the Municipality of Santo Domingo towards the street, near the central park Joaquín Zaracay. Downstairs, dozens of people are waiting to get one of the ‘gifts’.
A video circulates through social networks where a person is recorded throwing balls ⚽ from the Mayor’s Office of #Santo Domingo. This within the framework of the celebrations #christmas. pic.twitter.com/Cnhm7KLHvh
– The Ecuador Hour (@lahoraecuador) December 28, 2021
The video has a duration of 33 seconds. At that time, it is appreciated that a person is on the balcony and throws 12 balls. After throwing the last one, he raises his two arms and greets the audience below and who is grateful for this act.
This newspaper sought to communicate with the mayor of Santo Domingo, Wilson Erazo, but got no response about the throwing of gifts, who was the person who did it or who authorized it. From Communication of the Municipality they have not responded to the requests for information made
Municipality personnel, who preferred not to identify themselves, confirmed that the gifts they were released on Wednesday, December 22, on the eve of Christmas. They indicated that popularly elected authorities participated there.
Gift-throwing history
In December 1989, on the eve of the Christmas, a tragedy occurred when the mayor of Guayaquil at the time, Elsa Bucaram, led the delivery of toys from the municipal building. The ‘gifts‘They were thrown through slides to thousands of people who gathered in the basement of the Mayor’s Office.
As a result of the agglomerations, four citizens died. The fact was recorded in videos. Part of the toys were painted in the colors of the extinct today Ecuadorian Roldosista Party (PRE).
A case in Carondelet
Another gift-giving attracted attention on December 19, 2004. More than 500 poor people came to the Carondelet Palace to receive gifts, during the presidency of Lucio Gutiérrez. Due to the number of people, who exceeded the expected quota, there were aggressions and shoves that were collected in a chronicle of the weekly newspaper Blanco y Negro.
The journalists sought to know where the funds for the entertainment came from which included the delivery of toys, but there was silence from the Presidency. Then it was known that they also occurred ‘gifts‘in other provinces and that a collaborator of the regime, Bolívar González, said he had made the donations. (DLH)
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