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Editorial | Bureaucrats who forget the people

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00:00Liston Diario presents the Editorial from the Director.

00:04Editorial from Tuesday, May 27, 2025.

00:08Bureaucrats who forget the people.

00:11Institutional negligence has become a common practice in certain government offices.

00:15The result of this behavior has been the abandonment of vital projects for communities that truly need them.

00:21The cases of the Neiba Highway and the Guayacanes Bridge now reduced to rubble and unfulfilled promises

00:26are symbols of a state that seems to watch from afar as entire communities struggle to survive.

00:33In La Vega, the Camus River repeatedly swallows the improvised plank bridge that residents build to avoid being cut off.

00:40Although the Ministry of Public Works announced with great fanfare in 2024

00:44the bidding process for the Guayacanes Bridge, there are only phantom signs pointing to a non-existent project.

00:51Meanwhile, children, the elderly, and motorcyclists risk their lives crossing a precarious footbridge

00:58held up by the solidarity of men who, under a tarp, hope to help in exchange for a few coins.

01:04In Independencia, the Cana de Honda sinkhole is an open wound.

01:09The rains turned a 2020 crevasse into an abyss that split the road in two,

01:14leaving communities like Las Clavelinas isolated.

01:17Danger signs are conspicuous by their absence, and improvised detours are death traps.

01:22These cases reflect an almost cynical disregard for these needs.

01:27In Boca de Cachon, for example, children play among rusty rebar under a collapsed bridge,

01:32unaware of the danger that the authorities are aware of but ignore.

01:36Neglect also stifles agriculture.

01:38The floods destroyed irrigation canals vital to 500 families whose claims are running up against bureaucracy.

01:45May the Bayacanes Bridge and the Neighbor Highway cease to be official propaganda slogans and become realities.

01:52For Listin Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.

01:57Listin Diario presented the editorial from the director.