Eviction at Monte Sinai without resistance

In the cooperative Las Marias, in the area of Monte Sinai, 93 families watched helplessly, with fear, despair and pain, as their homes were destroyed by machinery from the government, for being seated in lands considered as illegal.

1,500 police officers, 500 soldiers and 55 members of the Transit Commission guarded the demolition, and stood responsible for maintaining order while a tractor and a backhoe tore the houses apart.

In an effort to help in keeping the calm before the inevitable measure, residents and neighborhood leaders of the sector, advised to remain calm in order to avoid abuses such as those that happened in the previous eviction of the cooperatives Toral Thalia 1 and 2, where the state hospital that is being constructed in that area, was partly destroyed.

Police officers guarded the main entry to the Monte Sinai Sector

Police officers kept the people away from the tractor while it destroyed several houses.

Government machinery taking a house down.

This house that was demolished, apparently was also a small business.

People were devastated while their houses were torn into pieces.

Some people burned the remainings of their houses.