About to Disappear the Houses of the Settlers in Mercedita, Aguirre and Ensenada

By Nydia Bauzá redaccion@esnoticiapr.com SALINAS – They were created in the United States as a company towns. They were prosperous sugar towns, with hospital, schools, post office, telegraph. Some had cinema, hotel and golf course. They had railroad tracks to move the sugarcane from the plants. The economy of Ponce, Salinas, Guánica and neighboring municipalities moved around the sugar estates, controlled by latifundista companies that last cent…