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“Hecho en el Caño”: an effort to promote businesses in the G8

For more than two decades, the ENLACE Caño Martín Peña Project has sought to create new entrepreneurs

September 1, 2025 - 3:26 PM

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For more than 20 years, the ENLACE Caño Martín Peña Project has sought to create new entrepreneurs and promote existing businesses. Pictured here is La Esquina Sports Bar, the business of Janiris Maldonado Meléndez and her mother, Gladys Meléndez Ortiz. Enlace del Caño Martín Peña, G8 Communities, Businesses, Community Economic Development (Carlos Rivera Giusti/Staff)

By Maricarmen Rivera Sánchez

Periodista de Negociosmaricarmen.rivera@gfrmedia.com

The communities of Caño Martín Peña are marked by displacement and an environmental crisis that has threatened the lives and safety of their residents for years. But it is also the story of a community that organized to push for the passage of laws that would protect them and the creation of programs that would help them remain in their homes.