In the neighbourhoods Christmas was as a new year's Party

Decided this year many people in the neighborhoods of the National District to anticipate the celebration of new year and dawn in the streets, which resulted in garbage accumulated in some sectors and that 21 of 22 deaths have been by accident of transit.

Dozens of colmadones and liquor stores took advantage of the grace in the schedule prepared by the Interior Ministry and police to keep its doors open on Christmas Eve filled with customers who remained drinking alcoholic beverages until past 10 in the morning of Christmas day, as a group of young people who enjoyed the DBFO Benito Street and Abreu of sector San Carlos.

The revelry was so pronounced in the Centre of the capital that the recklessness of a driver severed the the signal post located at the intersection of the boulevards Lope de Vega and Roberto Pastoriza, after a traffic accident

Careers in avenues
on Abraham Lincoln and Lope avenues u000aVega again there were displays of speed and "ceritos" who left tires marked on the pavement, actions which tend to make some young people from middle and upper class to draw attention to and display the marks of their vehicles.

"Family traditions of recollection and respect have already been lost to Christmas and people now get crazy to drink alcohol, do disorders and dawn on the street regardless of the tranquility of others," complained Mrs Cristina Filpo, resident in San Carlos, where December 31 closed a street to celebrate the "Rally of the drunk". In neighborhoods as Villa Juana, Villa Consuelo and San Carlos the presence of people "having breakfast" in the "chimis" carts was notorious and the frying woke up working selling dinners and breakfast after the night of December 24, 12. Cups and bags occupied the outskirts of tunnels and elevated the 27th of u000aFebruary, denoting the recklessness of drivers who threw their waste in public on Christmas Eve

Happiness was palpable as if were just beginning the rumba in "USA Drink" sector San Carlos, where their concurrent assured that they would sew up the business at 3: 00 in the afternoon and would open it to the five to dawn again.

In the popular sectors not missed the game of dominoes in colmadones and corners, dancing to the rhythm of music in vehicles, and the traditional "borrachines" of the neighborhoods that were ignored by the light of the Sun and continued drinking alcohol and joking with the "tígueres" in the corners.

The area from the Malecon of Santo Domingo was clean mid-morning, as well as the Colonial zone.

Many people took little flow of traffic in the morning to exercise and burn calories for Christmas dinner, walking and riding bicycles on the sidewalks of the Avenue George u000aWashington.

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Grand movement of customers and vendors
Dominicans, primarily the people of the neighborhoods of large cities, cast aside economic difficulties and social problems to celebrate Christmas Eve, in the midst of a great fanfare which in many areas lasted until the morning of the 25th.

More than 200 thousand pigs and 500 thousand chickens were slaughtered across the country, according to figures from the producers association, Moca, to supply the demand of the population, mostly cooked in charcoal or puya as known to the pig roast in the region of the Cibao.

From first hours in the municipality of Santo Domingo East and Villa Mella hundreds of sellers of roasts placed in long rows, tables and other improvised posts sales in the exits of major highways, the main avenues and the sector of Herrera to attract the thousands of travelers leaving the city.

Pound u000aroast pork 200 pesos he surpassed in some places and in others some people could buy to 180. "There are many people buying, we have sold three pigs before the 11: 00 in the morning," said Anselmo Ramírez, a seller of the Avenue Charles de Gaulle.

The main avenues, especially the most popular, such as the Duarte, José Martí, Paris and others nearby, became a true chaos by the number of vendors and passers-by.

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