Denizens of the upper area of Padre Las Casas Public Works reiterated its claim
The mayor of Las Lagunas Mary de Leon expressed fears that mountain communities remain cut off by the effects of downpours
Before the start of the rainy season, the inhabitants of the Cordillera Central reiterated their claim to the Government and the Ministry of Public Works to repair the Padre Las Casas-Constanza highway.
Meanwhile, the mayor of the borough Las Lagunas, Mary de Leon, warned chelae mountain communities are at risk of being cut off when the rains start.
"If not now serve the roads are dry, imagine what will happen in this area when it starts to rain the way it rains in the mountains between May and November," said Mesino Delgado, who lives in Las Cañitas section.
Delgado warned that become more difficult with the rain all activities in the area.
"By the deterioration of -precisó- way we can not get the harvest, they can not reach teachers who come from Padre Las Casas and Guayabal or doctors of Public Health, we can not move the sick or we can do our errands every day," he said .
He said that on one occasion a van carrying five teachers turned up to Buttonwood, a community located near one of the steps in Middle River.
"Every year when it starts to rain, more than twenty communities we live in this upper area of Padre Las Casas were held incommunicado, and there are places where you can not walk or animals," he added.
The road between Padre Las Casas and Constance, 60 kilometers long, deteriorated the early days of September last year, the rains of the storm Erika.
The deterioration of the road affects thousands of residents in communities like Las Lagunas, El Chocho, El Limon, Las Lajas, Buttonwood, Gajo de Monte, Majaguita, the Jobal, Las Cañitas, Los Auqueyes, Elechal, the drainer, parakeet, the bottle, Vallecito, Mata de Cafe, La Fortuna, El Roblito, Los Rodriguez, La Paila, Fundo Viejo, El Gramazo and South Sabina.
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"Every year when the rains begin, the uptown communities are cut off and the cost to be paid for succor is higher," said the mayor of Las Lagunas, Mary de Leon.
He reported that the mayor of Las Lagunas has invested more than 500 thousand pesos trying to improve the way to the place of Botoncillo but their resources are insufficient to continue.
He said that is held by the Ministry of Public Works take prevent communities remain incommunicado this year for the road conditions.
Salvador Ferreras, the Gajo de Monte community, reported to have extended its request under the road in different ways, with no response.
"It seems that the authorities have not been sensitized or imported them to a Honduran nun has fallen off the cliff, which has killed a wounded man in the community of Gajo de Monte, unable to be taken to hospital in Padre Las Casas; nor that the affected children of the cholera outbreak last month have had to be carried in hammocks stretcher and the doctor, and that teachers and doctors have to face many difficulties every day to reach their workplace, "he said.
On March 12 residents in twenty communities in the southern part of the range, holding hands, made a human chain to demand the repair of the road, the construction of seven schools and other claims, with the support of the Congregation of Christ Crucified of Padre Las Casas.
"We feel that the authorities are unfair to our communities and have thrown us to the abandonment and condemned to isolation," Salvador said F.
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