Hoy newspaper reports that former President Joaquin Balaguer’s opposition to the construction of facilities for the Santo Domingo Pan American Games at the Mirador del Este Park was due to a misunderstanding that the athletes’ village would be located there. The news item also says that now the former statesman’s strongest opposition is to the construction of the gymnastics pavilion. The newspaper says that negotiations are on the way so that the former statesman, under whose government the park was built, will give his go ahead to the construction of the installations. Meanwhile, the Colegio Dominicano de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, that gathers engineers and architects in the DR, said it opposes the use of the Mirador del Este Park for the construction of sport installations. Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons has also opposed the construction.
