The island is a perfect laboratory controlled experiment which refutes the idea that "all people are the same".
Posted on 09/14/2023 8:27:58 PM PDT by thegagline
The Dominican Republic had already begun building a wall at its border with Haiti. Then it cracked down on immigration, deporting tens of thousands of Haitians back to their impoverished and gang-ravaged country.
Now it’s closing the border entirely.
President Luis Abinader announced the Dominican Republic will shut all of its land, air and sea frontiers with Haiti starting Friday morning, amid a festering dispute over Haiti’s plans to construct a canal off a river that separates the two countries.
The announcement Thursday afternoon significantly escalates tensions between the two nations, which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and a long history of strained ties. The closure of Haiti’s only land border threatens to worsen the crisis in a country on the brink of collapse.
Ida Sawyer, crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch, said shutting the border would be “yet another demonstration of how the world is failing and abandoning the Haitian people.”
“A border closure would essentially lock Haitians within their country amid extreme levels of violence, including large-scale killings, kidnappings and rapes,” she said in a statement, “and with much of the population struggling to feed their families or access clean water and health care.” *** “The government of the republic of Haiti will take all measures as of law to protect the interests of the Haitian people,” it said.
“As you know, the Haitian government has a control problem in its territory,” Abinader said. “And if things are uncontrollable there, they will be uncontrollable for the Haitian government, but they will not be uncontrollable for the government of the Dominican Republic.”
Haiti was already the poorest country in the hemisphere before Moïse’s assassination . Since then, much of the country has descended into lawlessness, with gangs controlling large swaths of its capital and blockinghumanitarian aid.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Haiti is 95% black
Dominican Republic 15% black
Unemployment rate
Haiti 40.6%
DR 5.1%
Life expectancy
Haiti 64.6 years
DR 71.3 years
Literacy
Haiti 61.7%
DR 93.8%
GDP per Capita
Haiti $1800.00
DR $19,291
Homicide Rate:
Haiti 13.1 per 100,000
DR 10.5 per 100,000
Keep in mind that Haiti is, in some quarters, considered the first independent black republic in the world
“All cultures are equal”
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The island is a perfect laboratory controlled experiment which refutes the idea that "all people are the same".
I don’t blame DR one bit. My father went to DR once and crossed over into Haiti briefly. He told me his only thought was “what the hell happened to this place?”.
He couldn’t get back to DR fast enough.
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Next time a family member goes to DR, tell them it is considered good manners to bring back cigars.
RE: amid extreme levels of violence, including large-scale killings, kidnappings and rapes,”
We notice the similarities with Chicago and other Dem rule inner cities.
Haiti achieved independence in 1804 so yes they were the first black republic. Too bad they degenerated into chaos. Nobody’s fault but their own.
Probably not.
When you execute your former slaveholders in an uprising instead of negotiating for independence and then adopting your French heritage like the DR did with Spain, this is bound to happen, and it should have been a stark lesson for the young U.S., because the slaves could have revolted here as well.
I think what Haiti should do is dissolve itself as a country and give their part of the island completely over to the DR and the Haitian people should either accept DR rule or they should be incentivized to move a French speaking country in Africa.
Any given year, it's hard to tell who the winner is.
Haitians are cannibals, as many videos on-line attest to. But, in all honesty, Somalis probably eat each other as well.
11 million people on the Haitian side of the island. It’s problems will never go away. It’s a French problem. They could become a province again like Martinique. As Trump would say what have you got to lose?
Haiti has been independent for almost as long as we have.
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🙏🙏🙏
and so they came here
My brother & his wife are going to a wedding in the DR in a week. I will worry until he’s back home safe.
What that illustrates is the fact that if you do not protect property rights - your country will descend into the 4th or 5th world.
If ever there was a case for the United Nations, Haiti is it. An invasion, imposition of order and a Constitution that protects property rights fundamentally should be the first three things.
They didn’t have to kill the French people. They weren’t even treated badly, as slaves. If the white French had remained and developed the country, it would be a paradise like it once was. Haiti used to be the crown jewel of the Western Hemisphere, believe it or not.
No words.
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