Construction?

This one is being constructed.
You really can't tell what's being built and what's being destroyed around here. But generally, everything looks like it falls into the second category.

Everything is made out of concrete here because I assume it needs to be that way to withstand the rainy summer season. It sounds like it gets very wet and humid during the summers and I am guessing normal wood structures just wouldn't cut it. But I'm not sure.

Guys are smashing concrete with pick axes wherever you look--and at all hours of the day. There's one building down by the Plaza de Armas that has people working on it until about 11:00pm every day. I guess they mean business. It's just hard to tell what kind of business they mean: construction or destruction?

As these buildings are constructed they just look like a dump until they get all polished and paired up. And virtually all of the work is done by hand--even the cement mixing--so they look like a dump for quite some time. Anywhere you look you can find a building in some stage of being built or destroyed which, aesthetically, is a mess but actually it's a sign of progress.

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