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Garbage Collectors Ask For
Police Escort To Dump
Garbage collectors in San José
are constantly worried about
being victims of aggression by
delinquents at the La Carpio
sanitary fill. Last Friday
alone, garbage collector José
Espinoza, was shot at as he was
leaving the fill at 11pm.
The garbage trucks are obligated
to enter the fill at night to
dump their load, as the 50
tonnes of trash daily of the
downtown core can only be
collected at night.
The garbage collectors are
asking the Municipality of San
José to provide police escorts
for them and their trucks when
making the night deposits at La
Carpio. The other option, said
Hector Cerdas, of the Asociación
Nacional de Empleados Públicos y
Privados en la Municipalidad de
San José, is to hold the trucks
at the municipal plant and then
dump their load in the early
morning hours.
In addition to the shooting last
Friday, four more garbage
collectors have been attacked so
far this year. Cerdas says that
perhaps it is resentment on the
part of the EBI company that
lost the contract for the fill,
or its just acts of delinquency
in an area that not even the
police dare to patrol.
La Carpio, located southwest of
San José, a short distance from
the Hospital México and the
Parque de Diversiones, is one of
the more conflictive areas in
San José. The area is firmly
controlled by local gangs and
police have failed to establish
a presence there.
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