Burning Cane

Friday through Monday the cane fields were burning. People have been burning them in protest. I haven't quite figured out what they are protesting. Some say that they are protesting because they want the sugarcane factories to open back up again but the government won't. Others are saying that the government is considering open the sugarcane factories up again but the people don't want them opened again. I don't know much about it. What I do know is that there was a lot of ash covering the ground for a few days. Here are some pictures I took from the top of our apartment building of the cane fields burning:


Smoke covered the Puerto Plata area for days.


Burning fields toward Sosua


Billowing smoke. So gross!