Completion of schools, drinking water, repair and construction of streets claim residents of the communities Licey, El Cercadillo and La Cuevain Villa Mella, North Santo Domingo, tired of walking through the mud and carrying water on their heads.
During a stop on Jacobo Majluta Avenue, in front of the Colina del Viento residential complex, they launched slogans and erected allusive signs to their demands to the central government and to the Mayor of Santo Domingo Norte.
The locals stationed in the place since the early hours of yesterday, Wednesday, and as the day rose, community participation grew, since the authorities have left no other way than that of protests.
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Jose Sanchez and Eustaquian Ferranfrom the El Cercadillo and La Cueva communities, stated that despite the fact that these communities are centuries old, they have been submerged in total abandonment by all municipal authorities and central governments.
They deplored that a school that began to be built in 2013 is not finishedso hundreds of children are at risk of stay out of classrooms.
“We don’t have schools, clinics, sports facilities, and it’s embarrassing that in the 21st century we are walking on mud, the central government and the municipal government have forgotten about us,” they said. They lamented that the national and local authorities only remember the communities during campaign times.
He explained that the rulers only remember the sector when they are in campaign.
The residents of the different sectors ask the authorities to come to their aid.
