Santo Domingo ripping out trees
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - To escape her stifling apartment, to unwind from her monotonous job, to tune out the squalor, noise and crime all around her, Josefina Filmont has long taken refuge in the ...
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This story is bogus and misleading. Go to www.adn.gov.do which is Santo Domingo's city government website. The entire project is clearly and in depth described there, available to anyone with the slightest inclination of knowing the truth. And why did Carol Williams mentions that Santo Domingo is a teeming slum except for a few city blocks? Its obvious this person has NEVER been to Santo Domingo. Go to google earth and zoom into Santo Domingo to see just how many areas are not "teeming slums" and then visit the place. Why do people write stuff about places they have not been too?
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Where is the world does this journalist get off calling Santo Domingo "a teeming slum except for a few blocks around the Spanish colonial landmarks"? If this is the author's opinion then this article should be located in the editorial section. Either way, such a statement has no justification and totally discredits the article. Like Mariano mentioned in the previous comment, this person knows nothing about Santo Domingo.
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In addition to the teeming slum rubbish - where did the following idea come from:
"And access to the 9-mile Malecon seaside walkway, sandwiched between the Caribbean shore and the city's high-rise hotel strip, has been blocked for all but hotel guests" |
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Article should never have been posted here in Topix. OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!
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