Anyone who has visited a National District cemetery in the past two months has been able to see in person the good job new mayor of Santo Domingo David Collado has done to revamp the public burial grounds. These are the Máximo Gómez, Cristo Redentor and Barrio Obrero (Cristo Rey) cemeteries. A third, located on Av. Independencia, is closed for burials.
A report in Hoy newspaper on 31 October 2017, focuses on how these cemeteries contrast with the Cristo Salvador Cemetery, located near San Isidro, in Santo Domingo Este (SDE), under a different mayor. That cemetery apparently continues to suffer from crime, lack of pruning and garbage proliferation as the National District cemeteries under the previous Mayor Roberto Salcedo.
The report is published as people prepare to visit the cemetery on occasion of All Saints Day (Dia de los Muertos) that is celebrated on Wednesday, 1 November 2017. In the Dominican Republic many families maintain the tradition of visiting their relatives that are buried at the cemeteries.
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Ayuntamiento Distrito Nacional
1 November 2017
