Without violence nor desperation, the line which forms Mondays and Fridays on market day every week isn’t easy to organize. That is a big task to take on starting from the inauguration of the new bridge across the Masacre River, in Dajabon.

The human tide which moves as a tornado affects Haitians, Dominicans, foreigners: everyone.

And more still, this social situation points towards the holdups committed against humble buyers, with officialdom’s consent, intelligence and will. For that reason, you see that the heavy line isn’t easy to organize, which is the great task which must be done starting with the bridge’s inauguration.

The context specially is observed in the urban zone called the market, where the disorder in the circulation of motor vehicles, wheelbarrows, carts, and people who come and go on foot, making it easy for the pickpockets, spurs personal violence, and block the emergency services by the agencies present in the market area, which cannot respond quickly.

This also makes it difficult for the ambulance to transport patients to the Ramon Matías Mella hospital, when they get stuck in the middle of traffic jams. As often happens, they cannot leave because a stopped truck without a driver blocks the way: how is that allowed?

Then that parked truck without its driver causes wheelbarrows, motorcycles and people to pile up. To walk that market Mondays and Fridays, hey, it’s pandemonium!

It also happens with the Firefighters; when it’s not one truck which wants to go through one or above another; or tries to get ahead of the other in front of it and the jam is set, and hour and 45 minutes are lost there, waiting for someone to unravel the mess.

And we say that all of that can be done, can be controlled, if we really have officials who work, who do what they must do: Immigration inspectors, those of the City Council, the Army, the Cesfront (border police), Customs, and if just one of those does what it must then the circulation of vehicles and pedestrians would be perfect.