The Suero community publicly denounced a new wave of pressuressummonses and notifications sent by business groups, actions that – they claim – seek to force the eviction of the more than 100 families that currently inhabit the area, many of them with historical roots for more than a century.
The complaint was formalized through a open letterin which the community members claim to live an atmosphere of “uncertaintyanguish and harassment“.
The document reminds that Serum has more than 150 years of existence and has always been a space for coexistence and community development.
In addition to the number of families that make it up today, the area has a public school and one Catholic church established since 1972which reaffirms its social, territorial and population character.
The community members maintain that the pressures that they face contradict he legal system current.
Who owns it?
The Law 386-06who created the Verón–Punta Cana Municipal Districtset in your article 2 that Serum It is a place in the Juanillo Section, formally recognizing it as political-administrative unit of the Dominican stateprotected by the Constitution.
“Serum It is not a private possession; It is a place recognized by the State. Nobody can be the owner of a place,” insist the community’s lawyers.
The jurists explained that real estate companies has attempted to ignore the rights registered in the plot 367where since 1960 they have been recognized 43 parceleros whose improvements and occupation were incorporated into the sanitation processes. However, today the population exceeds 100 families legitimately settled in that territory.
The lawyers denounce that these business groups have carried out measurements, subdivisions and demarcation work without migrating the rights of the landowners, and that even presented the homes of the community members as “abandoned stables”, to justify title requests without notification to the legitimate occupants.
This motivated a litigation over registered rightsin an attempt to cancel said works.
In the open letterthe community demands that the authorities stop actions that threaten its stability and its historical right to live in peace.
“We are a peaceful townbut determined to defend ours with dignity“, concludes the document.
