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12-23-2008, 02:00 PM
Diario Libre is reporting that the National District Municipality has agreed to allow temporary parking in the Chinatown area of Santo Domingo. The temporary agreement will allow parking from 23 December until 7 January, typically the year's busiest commercial season. Once the holiday season is over the former no parking restrictions will go back into effect. This decision comes after traders in Chinatown staged a confrontation with municipal authorities in protest against the parking prohibition that affected two key streets in the area. In response to the disturbance, a Municipal Police contingent headed by Colonel Dival Peguero arrived at 2pm to restore order and remove the vehicles. This resulted in verbal and physical confrontation between the traders and police. The president of the Chinatown Traders Association, Juan Paniagua, was beaten without provocation, according to his associates, by Dival Peguero. He was hit in the left eye with handcuffs used as a club by the colonel and was taken to the Abreu Clinic. According to reports, Paniagua received 15 stitches and could need an operation.
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