La Patilla,- Residents of this community in the Dajabón municipality, protested for the third consecutive day against the COFAH company that builds the wall in this part of the border, due to the alleged contamination they are suffering from the transport of added matter from a mine in that location.
The demonstrators once again paralyzed the traffic of trucks belonging to the FENATRADO union, because they also failed to comply with the agreements reached between the community members, the company and the engineer Rafael Espinal, regional manager of the Ministry of Public Works.
According to the protesters, the agreements consist of repairing the highway that passes in front of their houses, which has been destroyed by the passage of trucks carrying 80 tons of aggregate for filling in the border wall, wetting the track twice a day and use fill material to cover the holes made by heavy vehicles.
“None of the promises have been fulfilled and they only came to the place to dump land that produces more pollution, we can no longer live in the midst of the dust that the trucks raise, that’s why we continue to fight this weekend,” said Mrs. Nori Estévez, representative of the neighborhood council of the place.
“We are afraid that it is going to rain because if water falls then we will all be kidding ourselves, with the mud that will be made, which is produced by that type of land with topsoil here,” he said.
The representatives of the parties in conflict arrived at the place, but until noon this Saturday the problem that caused it had not been resolved.
