The State Sugar Council (CEA) has given the Hernandez Paulino construction firm until Monday to return possession of millions of square meters of land to them or else! The construction company has been given two choices: either pay the going price for the land or return it. The CEA executive, Domingo Enrique Martinez is talking about 13 million square meters of land that was acquired at infinitesimally low prices during the PRD administration of Hipolito Mejia. A former senator for La Romana, Martinez said that the company has to return the land, or pay the market price for it. Otherwise, the CEA would use legal procedures to safeguard the state’s land. Legal advisor to the Executive Branch, Cesar Pina Toribio said that the CEA did not need to get a presidential decree to re-possess the land. Pina Toribio said, “Simply put, the government just has to use the resources that the law provides for in case these lands were irregularly acquired. The lands in question are located in the El Toro and the El Bonito sections of San Isidro, part of the National District, and were purchased at US$2.00 a square meter.