The octogenarian woman would like to be included in the social plans of the government of President Luis Abinader
Esperanza, Valverde.- At one hundred years old, Mrs. Mundita still remembers fresh in her memory the heavy hand of the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo and the generosity of the government of President Joaquín Balaguer. She lives happily with her family, despite economic limitations and social neglect by the authorities.
“Those who did not have the ID in the Era of Trujillo had to run away at night, because it was mandatory to carry it in their pockets, but people could wake up in the streets and no one would rob them. The only thief was him,” said the lady, in an interview given to Hoy reporters from her residence.
Raymunda Minier, Doña Mundita’s first name, was born on February 7, 1924, in Loma de Jicomé Abajo, a community belonging to the municipality of Esperanza, in the Valverde province. He said that he loved the former president of the Republic Joaquín Balaguer.
“I adored Dr. Balaguer, he always gave me my food boxes and never harmed my children,” said the octogenarian woman who has lived for decades in the El Manguito de Damajagua area, also in the municipality of Esperanza.
Doña Mundita had ten children with her husband Juan (deceased), and currently lives with one of her daughters. He explained that he survives by taking care of his family, but that he does not receive any social assistance from the central government, except for subsidized health insurance from SeNasa.
His only health situation that he suffers from at the moment is his blood pressure. She is not diabetic and that allows her to ‘eat everything’ that is within her reach; He says that he never misses his coffee in the morning.
“I eat two eggs for breakfast, salami or cheese with food, (mangú), sometimes chocolate with bread, every day and if it doesn’t appear they give me something else to eat,” said Mrs. Mundidta, and gave cachirulas as an example. , name given in the fields to the green banana.
At one hundred years old and with multiple needs, Mrs. Mundita is not one of those people who lives complaining about problems at every moment.
Due to her advanced age, she requires the support of the Dominican State, through the National Council for the Aging (Conape), an institution that from now on has the opportunity to start an uprising in remote places such as the community of Damajagua, Esperanza, where other elderly people and their same needs are found.
