NewsWhore
12-14-2009, 03:20 PM
According to press releases and statements made last week, the Metro 2A line between Los Alcarrizos and Maximo Gomez Avenue would not affect many people or businesses located between Los Alcarrizos and Luperon Avenue.
However, Victor Geronimo, one of the leaders of the Alternative Social Forum, is reporting today that 1,000 families are likely to be displaced by the new transport system. In a statement today he said that families in the Los Guandules barrio had each been offered the paltry sum of just RD$150,000 to move out.
He said, "We have a semi-dictatorial setting that little by little is heading for a state of destruction, and the imposition that takes in the reorganization of all of the powerful sectors, of the oligarchy, to distribute the nation's assets like a giant cake." Geronimo said that the best example of this was the attempt by one business group to appropriate land near the Los Haitises (National Park) and the renewal of the contract with Barrick Gold, both of which were damaging to the nation's best interests.
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However, Victor Geronimo, one of the leaders of the Alternative Social Forum, is reporting today that 1,000 families are likely to be displaced by the new transport system. In a statement today he said that families in the Los Guandules barrio had each been offered the paltry sum of just RD$150,000 to move out.
He said, "We have a semi-dictatorial setting that little by little is heading for a state of destruction, and the imposition that takes in the reorganization of all of the powerful sectors, of the oligarchy, to distribute the nation's assets like a giant cake." Geronimo said that the best example of this was the attempt by one business group to appropriate land near the Los Haitises (National Park) and the renewal of the contract with Barrick Gold, both of which were damaging to the nation's best interests.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)