Empresarios del Malecón de Puerto Plata se encadenan en protesta por desalojo y acusan abuso de poder

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00:00We have arrived here in Cadenal. Why? Because no official has joined us yet.

00:10And we feel depressed because we feel like rats in society.

00:18And we are not like that. We are people with values.

00:22We have our heads held high. No one can step on our tails.

00:28So I want to emphasize here that this fight,

00:34even though we are still relocated there, the fight will continue.

00:39Because I have to stay clear of everyone, no one can chase me.

00:44Not only the relocation, but the persecution.

00:49I want the enemies to know that we came to this pacific part

00:57because it is the path we have to take.

01:00But not because we don't have the courage to face the enemy wherever it is.

01:05We feel sorry that the government that we gave to President Luis Abinader

01:14is not giving us a hand.

01:20And he is not giving us a hand because when people who are organized in an association

01:25are thrown out of the beach area, it is a government that promised to defend us,

01:31that promised to protect our interests.

01:34They don't want to get us off the beach. They don't want to get us off the cable car.

01:39They don't want to get us out of wherever there is an informal economy business

01:44that has given a lot of benefits to this country.

01:47They don't want to get us out.

01:49So we are standing, we are fighting, and we will continue to fight.

01:54I am here in the company of Elia because of the atrocities they have done to him.

02:00It is a shame that the justice system has had to wait,

02:03to be chained in the middle of the palace,

02:06for them to claim their rights, for them to come and give them support.

02:11When this was, this eviction was on Thursday.

02:17And until now, none of the competent authorities that have anything to do with this case

02:24have come to us to give us support.

02:29We are surprised that the Dominican state has given the public force

02:35to evict the Dominican state.

02:38Because this case of the malecon was built by the Dominican state

02:43in a space that is actually owned by the Dominican state.

02:48Because for no one it is a secret that the 60 meters of the Pleyamar

02:52establish that they are of exclusive use of the Dominican state.