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Santo Domingo. – Just hours after a police contingent arrived in the northeast community Gonzalo, where several organizations erected a campsite to protest the construction of cement pant near the Los Haitises National Park, Monte Plata governor David “Garis” Contreras, called on the demonstrators to leave “before the blood reaches the river.”

“As head of the province we must preserve order because we don’t want the permanent presence of those groups which could degenerate into confrontations” said the official appointed by president Leonel Fernandez in a press conference in the Lina hotel in the capital.

Contreras asked the groups, who on May 16 formed the campsite on private lands near the plant’s construction site, to end their protest to prevent confrontations.

The press conference comes just hours after a police contingent, headed by at least three generals and two colonels, arrived Thursday afternoon in Gonzalo, and which according to Contreras “are there to keep order because the situation has turned sour, with the formation of several groups in favor and against the same cause.”

SOURCE: clavedigital.com

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6 comment(s)
Written by: chillaxin201 This user is banned, 12 Jun 2009 8:43 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Boycott Dominican Tourism
Anyting for money right Leonel? even if you do kill some of your own people. Your becoming worst the Balaguer.
Written by: poponlaburra, 13 Jun 2009 10:34 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Kudos for those demostrators!!! Yes, those are the kind of people we need the trees huggers!
Written by: Eve2874, 14 Jun 2009 1:04 AM
From: United States
Leonel is worst than Balaguer!!! Well if the governor Monte Plata en Leonel want bloodshed that is what they will have. They think that Dominicans in the country are alone. We Dominicans here in the United States are willing to fight for everything that deals with our country.
Written by: Trujillo, 14 Jun 2009 2:17 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Most people in that town where the cement plant will be constructed, which is not in the national park, want the plant. Most if not all of the people that think they're some sort of hereos for protesting this are not even from that town. They're from Santo Domingo or elsewhere. You can avoid this conflict by building the plant in Bani and building something else in Gonzalo. By the way, the bloodshed could be the result of confrontation between groups that are in favor and those against the construction of the plant OUTSIDE the national park. Before "fighting" for something you should get informed first.
Written by: DomLon, 17 Jun 2009 6:10 AM
From: United Kingdom
Why do they need to build this plant in Gonzalo?
Written by: poponlaburra, 17 Jun 2009 2:26 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Why do they need to build so close to this national park?? That is walking distance. They should be adding areas around the park, not taking away from it.

Isn't anyone telling them the disastrous effect of any type of uncontrolled dust, especially of cement on the environment?

Is any environmentalist involved that could recall the effect that African dust from almost 3,000.00 miles away from the Caribbean was changing and affecting the Caribbean sea floor and the coral reef with a white fungus? Not only was this dust changing the coral reef by covering its beautiful colors, but the coral reef ecosystem living in it and by it, affecting the food chain.

My God this is going to be a disaster, we won’t see it now but we'll see it 10 years from now by them it will be irreversible.

This is the reason more land should be added to the protected area, because it only take one insensitive person to destroy what have taken millions of years to be created.
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