October 23, 2022, 2:45 PM
October 23, 2022, 2:45 PM
With the festivity of Todos Santos just days away, the mourners, Despite the indefinite strike in Santa Cruz, there are ways to reach the cemeteries to carry out the cleaning and corresponding arrangement of the niches and mausoleums.
The extreme measure that is followed in the department of Santa Cruz paralyzed all activities from midnight on Saturday in demand of the census in 2023. However, in the cemeteries the activities did not stop completely, since people arrive on foot, on bicycles or on motorcycles to be able to paint or clean the niches and mausoleums.
“With unemployment or without unemployment, Todos Santos is going to arrive and they are my relatives, that’s why we are painting,” commented Roxana Escobar, while supervising the work of the masons in the Pampa de La Cruz cemetery.
A similar situation was revealed by Carmela Martínez, from the General Cemetery, where she went to fix her family’s mausoleum. “It’s a matter of tradition They only ask us for one day a year and that is why we strive to receive souls,” he said.
It should be remembered that, from the Mayor’s Office, they reported that the cemeteries They will be open until October 28, for the mourners to carry out any repairs, painting or cleaning. From that date The 25 managed by the Mayor’s Office will be closed, to do a general cleaning.
So for the All Saints Day everything is ready to receive the mourners.
