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06-06-2007, 03:10 PM
With 18 bridges and six water crossings destroyed by the recent rains, at least one hundred communities are either cut off or nearly cut off from the rest of the country. This isolation prevents assistance from reaching the needy and keeps crops from getting to market. For example the road from Punal to Colorado is cut and this affects thirty nearby communities. The road between Villa Tapia and La Vega is out and eight bridges in Moca have effectively stalled communication between most communities in Espaillat province. As a result, President Fernandez is traveling to San Francisco de Macoris and La Vega today, to see the damage for himself. The President will also be visiting Guanabana in Moca, Espaillat province. Next Friday the Chief Executive will make his promised return trip to Dajabon to see how repairs to the town, which sustained severe damage in a tornado last month, are coming along.
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