From Sosua news
10 June 2010
La Piedra must move
It is about to happen. It was already published in the newspapers. Soon, La Piedra, a neighborhood in Charamicos, will have to move. For the residents, near the neighborhood La Liberación 600 flats will be built. The flats will be somewhat larger than the houses in La Liberación. The residents of La Liberación bitterly complain about the small and very noisy flats. The government has taken these complaints seriously and has already promised that the new apartments will be larger and farther away from each other. The nearby village La Maranata will also be evacuated.
La Piedra must move
La Piedra
The intention is to clean the river Sosúa. The river is used by the village of Maranata as an open sewer. All the houses along the river site will be cleared out. These residents of Maranata will also have to move to the new neighborhood. The rest of Charamicos will eventually disappear. This part of town will eventually be transformed into a tourist complex with a marina. The residents of La Piedra are furious about the announcement of a forced relocation and already indicated that they will not move to those flats. They point at the high cost of transport to get to work because most of them work at the beach. Furthermore they point to the bad experiences that the residents of the apartments in La Liberación have with their new accommodation. Many of the residents of La Piedra have a beautiful home. The money they invested in these homes will not or only partly be compensated.
I for one don't like changes like this as I like the flavor that the traditional Dominican waterfront communities now have but it unfortunately will happen and the communities as are will soon be but a memory.
It's always amused me how the people making money off of projects such as this (both in and out of government) use phrases like progress and modernization to describe what they are doing, when in my mind the only words that comes to me are : ruined and gone forever.
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