The purchases are attributed to the aid that the Government gave Despite warnings about the increase in coronavirus cases that keep the leading local hospitals saturated, thousands of people, without maintaining physical distance, went this Thursday to this city’s main shopping centers to do their Christmas shopping. During a tour carried out by Diario Libre reporters, they observed the people crowded together as they moved through Del Sol, 30 de Marzo, España, Duarte, San Luis, and other streets in the Historic Center of Santiago. Also, the citizens crowded inside the stores and supermarkets. Jose Octavio Reinoso, president of the Association of Companies of the Center of Santiago (ASECENSA), attributed these agglomerations to closing the flea market that operated in this city. He indicated that these informal merchants took to the […]