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SANTO DOMINGO.- Hundreds of people marched yesterday towards the National Palace to protest the construction of a cement plant in the northeast community Gonzalo, next to the Los Haitises National Park’s damping zone.
A riot police unit kept the demonstrators from reaching the front of the Government’s headquarters, and is the latest incident in growing protests against the plant across the country.
The marchers said if the project materializes, it would cause the country’s worst ecological damage.
They also warned Environment minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal and to the by Monte Plata ruling PLD party senator Charles Mariotti that the cement dust would bury their prestige.
The march left from the Duarte avenue and Pedro Cedeño Livio street intersection, at 10 a.m., but was intercepted at the Mexico avenue in front of the Club San Carlos, around six blocks from the Palace.
There were no arrests reported but the priest Rogelio Cruz, who took part in the march, was thrown to the pavement in a scuffle with police.
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My question is, that with all of the uninhabeted land available in the country, why do they want to be at this particular site? Is there GOLD in the ground there?????
Yes there is kind of gold in tons of calcified rock rich in calcium carbonate, in the area make for the best raw material for the manufacture of cement, and the indiscriminate dynamite mining of the million years old deposits.