President Danilo Medina visited the La Nueva Barquita project yesterday, Sunday 20 July 2014 where families living under the Ozama Bridge are due to be relocated. Some 1,620 residents who had lived in three areas along the banks of the Ozama River are being relocated. Project superintendent, engineer Omar Guzman and architect Patricia Cuevas gave explanations to the visitors. The government seeks to create a model social and human transformation project.
President Medina toured the area and visited a model home in a four-floor building with eight apartments that was built in just one month and 12 days. From the second floor of the building, the President was able to look over the site of a primary healthcare center being built for the Nueva Barquita residents.