The last whistle that came out of the fireplace and marked the definitive closure of the Friendship ingenuity occurred in mid -1999, by passing this measure taken by the government of Leonel Fernández Reyna, left 2,500 people without job source. He alleged low profitability.
The closure of this sugar company founded in 1892 plunged into misery and became “cemetery of living men” to the heads of families, especially from the Plainos de Pérez community, where it operated.
This central produced 17 thousand tasks, of which 12 thousand were owned by the State Sugar Council and the remaining of the private colonato.
Former employees who occupied executive positions, middle and general direction controls, including Joaquín Antonio Bidó, Wascar González, welcome Trejo (Biencito), regret that he was closed, because he served as a support and source of jobs for fixed and temporary workers.
Bidó pointed out that since then “the imberteña economy depends on entrepreneurship projects, including the informal part, the motoconthism, which never when we had our sugar industry into operation, both in the time of Zafra and in the so -called dead period.”
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González, who worked for decades in the company, said that the effects of this closure “still devastate, are negative and bitter for those of us who lost our jobs, daily livelihood of our families.” He said that the community, especially Llanos de Pérez, has given negative change.
