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02-22-2011, 02:30 PM
Father Rogelio Cruz said mass at the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Park on the Malecon last Friday, 18 February to call the attention of the authorities to the emblematic city boulevard. Father Rogelio, known for his community activism, convened several neighborhood groups to participate in the mass. He called for other masses to take place at Guibia beach, Plaza Omar Torrijos and the Villa Consuelo market in protest at the city council's delays in completing these important works. "We are going to the city government headquarters so that Mayor Roberto Salcedo can tell us what he has done with the great amount of resources his administration has managed during the past eight years without resolving any of the city's problems. We are also going to ask the city councilors what role they have played", said the Catholic priest. During the mass, Father Rogelio Cruz had strong words for the municipal authorities for their neglect of the Malecon, considered the most historic public space in Santo Domingo.
"Let us pray for pardon and pity of those who have left this work abandoned and to its own luck. This has become a home for rats and cockroaches and criminals to seek refuge," said Father Rogelio. During the mass, Santo Domingo Hotels Association president Roberto Henriquez said that the event was aimed at calling the authorities' attention to the deteriorating and abandoned state of the important thoroughfare. Hotelier Exmin Carvajal also highlighted the lack of care that adversely affects the chances of selling Santo Domingo as a major convention center. Architect Huberto Henriquez, president of the Gazcue City Boards Union, said that local residents have not received any answer to requests made to the Salcedo administration for an improvement in services and enforcement of regulations in that area. Gazcue resident Elida Bobea said that the mass was a peacefully protest to call for the immediate repair of Eugenio Maria de Hostos Park and the Malecon as a whole.
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"Let us pray for pardon and pity of those who have left this work abandoned and to its own luck. This has become a home for rats and cockroaches and criminals to seek refuge," said Father Rogelio. During the mass, Santo Domingo Hotels Association president Roberto Henriquez said that the event was aimed at calling the authorities' attention to the deteriorating and abandoned state of the important thoroughfare. Hotelier Exmin Carvajal also highlighted the lack of care that adversely affects the chances of selling Santo Domingo as a major convention center. Architect Huberto Henriquez, president of the Gazcue City Boards Union, said that local residents have not received any answer to requests made to the Salcedo administration for an improvement in services and enforcement of regulations in that area. Gazcue resident Elida Bobea said that the mass was a peacefully protest to call for the immediate repair of Eugenio Maria de Hostos Park and the Malecon as a whole.
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