The smoke from roasted chicken and pork, the bustle of motorcyclists, the offers from tricycle drivers and the music from grocery stores were the common denominator this Tuesday in neighborhoods of the National District who were preparing for dinner Christmas Eve.
On different corners, stands were improvised to sell roast chicken and in fewer places pigs, teleras and Christmas sweets. The atmosphere was not the same as usual: many people, more vehicles on the streets than usual, and greater business activity.
Until noon, few people were seen drinking alcohol with loud music, contrary to other years in neighborhoods such as Villa Francisca, San Carlos, Guachupita, Los Guandules, Gualey, Simón Bolívar, Capotillo and others.
Alexis Pérez (Pollón) has a business selling roast meats on Josefa Brea street, corner of Manuela Díez, and says that the sales They have been good. He has been there for nine years and remembers that last year the sales They were much better than this 2024.
“At six in the morning I had almost 100 chickens sold and right now not even half, the economy is not very good,” he lamented.
Ernesto Paulino, a pork seller on Antigua Central Street, along with his wife, offered the merchandise to those who passed by the place. The demand was good and in a short time it ran out.
“Tell it in Diario Libre, that the best roast pork is sold here,” he said with an expression of satisfaction because by noon he had already used up the meat.
Housewives were seen in the stalls sales of the food which are traditionally prepared at dinner Christmas Eve and the sale of roast pork seemed to be in greater demand.
There was no shortage of those who crowded stores on Duarte Avenue in search of “brand new” clothes, as many people do on December 25 of each year. La Duarte was packed with people and vehicles.
In some streets, daily garbage was piled up in improvised landfills, although in others, the amount of waste was so much that it seemed like the accumulation of several days.
