NewsWhore
06-12-2012, 01:50 PM
All of today's newspapers, including Hoy, are discussing the Santo Domingo municipal authorities' attempts to evict the informal street traders who occupy public spaces. One of the papers reports on the efforts to clean up the Av. Duarte with Paris intersection under the overpass, where after the sellers were removed at 10am, they sprung back up like mushrooms a few hours later, by 2pm. In the case of the footbridge over the intersection of Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy avenues, the city council announced the removal of the sellers as well as from the area around Kilometer 9 of the Duarte Highway. The vendors were removed but were back again last Friday, each fighting for space to sell their items, and taking up over half of the space. At Churchill and Kennedy avenues a truck selling pineapples parked itself under the shade of the footbridge and sold its product, leaving garbage on the ground.
Alfonso Rambalde Vasquez, president of the vendors association of Duarte/Paris intersection said that when the vendors were authorized by the city government to operate at the intersection, 125 municipal policemen were assigned to oversee the fulfillment of agreements to maintain order, but they are not longer posted there, which has led to the present chaos, as reported in Hoy. Today the vendors overflowed from the sidewalks and on to the street.
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Alfonso Rambalde Vasquez, president of the vendors association of Duarte/Paris intersection said that when the vendors were authorized by the city government to operate at the intersection, 125 municipal policemen were assigned to oversee the fulfillment of agreements to maintain order, but they are not longer posted there, which has led to the present chaos, as reported in Hoy. Today the vendors overflowed from the sidewalks and on to the street.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)