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.
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True. So they should have a thriving tourist industry with cruise ships docking at Port-au-Prince.
Gee, I can think of a few other countries that should do the same thing.
Haiti didn’t formally make rape illegal until 2005.
“yet another demonstration of how the world is failing and abandoning the Haitian people“
The only thing failing the Haitian people is the Haitian people.
L
Voodo is an awful thing.
Need to get the Clinton Foundation back down there to coordinate and administer donated aid and funds again.
Making voodoo your unoffical national religon is asking for a curse on the land
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“Haiti’s one bright moment was its military victory against Napoleon...”
They didn’t beat Napoleon. It was more like Napoleon cutting his losses because he had his hands full with Europe. If France really wanted to, they could have crushed the slave rebellion.
I would not worry too much. Tourists are generally well protected all over.
Haiti had a bad history too.
The French were brutal slave owners. The slave uprising was brutal back.
Then Napoleon invaded and tried to re install slavery.
The French hit Haiti with a huge bill for leaving, which Haiti paid off only in the 1990s.
Then the Haitians started screwing themselves, with coups, violence and de deforestation.
Partly France fault but mainly their own
Haiti average IQ - 67
DR average IQ - 82
This explains all the other statistics.
Good for the DR.
We need to follow suit for the same reasons.
So Haitians are morons and Dominicans are merely dim-witted.
Haitian MLB greats: (sorry, there has never been a major league player from Haiti)
This is describing what will soon happen around every major city in the USA.
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