He market of Elías Pineapple It is literally the heart of the province, since it is located in the center of Commanderits header municipality.
Currently, the Government Execute a project To formalize binational trade with Haiti in an area of the place The Carrizal and create a structure with conditions similar to other bilanty markets.
Although the idea sounds positive, the merchants of the current one market They resist accepting it. They ensure that, far from bringing solutions, it is a less safe alternative and more tedious access.
With more than 30 years as a catchonero marketAugusto explained to Free newspaper that would not leave its place. “This is ours market Of the Dominicans, “said the Lord, visibly uncomfortable by the question.
For vicious Leonidas, a seller who also has about three decades in the marketthe problem is that the new construction still does not have the basic conditions for a business.
Merchants complain about distance
The merchants They complain about the distance they would have to travel to reach that place, on the ground floor and the proximity to the border, among other factors.
“I don’t move from here, and that market They will do it out there, we are not going, “he told Diary Free The picturesque cheese saleswoman, popularly known in that area as “Mami”.
The disgust does not remain alone in the merchants; customers As Raquel Rosado explain that, if they transfer the marketthey would prefer to “go to buy the supermarket“
Abinader Visit the construction of the binational market
He president Luis Abinader made a tour of the construction of the market binational in the Commander municipality, in the province Elías Pineapple.
There, he met with those in charge of the work and observed the plans that are being executed.
The president accompanied the Governor Provincial, Migdalia de los Santos; he senator by the province Elías Piña, Johnson Encarnación Díaz; Deputies Luis Castillo and Milis Martínez, in addition to the contractor of the work, Rafael Guzmán.
Diary Free tried to do a inspection of the physical advances of this projectbut the entrance was limited because it is a “restricted zone.”
According to the information that is so far, the market of commander would remain as one municipal and the other would go to the binational category.
