The D’La Mona Plaza is generating a lot of speculation among readers of the Diario Libre, says the newspaper. According to its report yesterday, unknown investors, possibly from Puerto Rico, were planning to build a plaza on a small island located in the Mona Passage, the channel of water that divides Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The rest-stop was ostensibly being designed for the hundreds of DR travelers who attempt to make the illegal crossing every year. In a paid advertisement today, however, a group called el Colectivo de Arte Shampoo apologizes to readers who may have misinterpreted their aims and “for any confusion the presentation of this project may have caused.”
Yesterday’s publication contained an advertisement by Constructora Internautica del Caribe that offered locales at the proposed plaza, but tracking that company down was no easy feat, says the Diario Libre, whose staff tried unsuccessfully to reach the authors of the project at the telephone number and email address given. All that was gleaned in the course of their investigation was that the telephone was listed to an address in the Universitaria area of Santo Domingo where the Shampoo publicity company is also located. The two entities, Arte Shampoo and Constructora Internautica del Caribe, appear to be one and the same, however, and the plaza project nothing more than a creative idea. The initiative was apparently presented to promote the art festival Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan that is to take place tomorrow, 4 December, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.