Little interest in a march for Kamala

NEW YORK (EFE).— Barely a hundred people, mainly of Dominican origin, supported the “Great March: I am with Kamala” (Harris) scheduled for yesterday and which ran between the upper Manhattan area, New York, and the vicinity of the Bronx district.

The event, which was supported by the office of New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat along with local Democratic organizations such as “Northern Manhattan Democrats For Change” and “Harlem To The Heights Campaign Committee,” did not have the expected following despite being presented as a highly interesting event.

“There are only 45 days left until the election. We are going to hold the largest march in New York City to support our candidate, the first woman to be elected President of the United States,” Espaillat’s office had assured, inaccurately, hours earlier.

Many of the hundred or so attendees were campaign workers for the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz presidential ticket, but members of the “Women of the Bronx for Kamala” group and the hotel workers union in New York also came to show their support.

“Endangered”

“We firmly believe that the situation of Latinos is in danger if Donald Trump returns. He openly says that he is against us. Kamala must win. There is no other option,” she told EFE. Jocelyn Sanchez, a Dominican hotel cleaner who has also been fighting for weeks against the approval of a new local measure that threatens to destroy hundreds of jobs in cleaning services.

“With Kamala, we’re going there” and “The power is Kamala’s” could be heard at the march, which was accompanied by several cars of supporters of the current US vice president with photographs of her face and flags of the Dominican Republic.

For Alexander Valdez, another attendee and resident of the neighboring community of Little Dominican Republic (upper Manhattan), the reason for the poor attendance at what was expected to be a large turnout for the Latino community in New York is that “most families cannot stop working for an entire Saturday morning, even if they support her” (Kamala Harris).

“It is not easy for us, although the Dominican community in New York has been around for decades, we continue to fight to get ahead day after day and it is not easy to join events like this. That is why we do not want Trump, because we are afraid of losing what we have already achieved,” he added.