Yesterday, Sunday 25 November, President Danilo Medina continued his series of surprise visits to oft-neglected areas of the country, which he has been doing since his first month in office. This time he went to Manzanillo in the province of Montecristi and Pedernales on the Haitian frontier – the farthest northwest and southwest points of the country. In Manzanillo, the President declared the renewal and revamping of the Manzanillo Project to be a national priority. This is one of the older agrarian reform projects on the former multinational Grenada Company lands. In the south, the President ordered the planting of some 12,000 tareas (a tarea is 629 m2) and an additional 1,200 tareas of corn, in the Valle de Juancho Agricultural Development Project. As has become traditional, only two vehicles and a minimal military presence accompanied the presidential visits.