Haiti-Dominican Border Politics

While the Haitian government is trying to build back their military, the Dominican Ministry of Defense is taking total control of their side of the border with Haiti.

Here's a photograph of Dominican soldiers standing atop a mountain on the Haiti-Dominican border securing keeping their side safe.

Lately, the Dominican Republic has been expanding their control and surveillance points all along their border with Haiti.

Their new border security consists of a series of integrated border management bases that sits right next to their perimeter fence that sits right on the border, Haiti on one side, the Dominican Republic on the other.

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Bad news from the Haiti-Dominican Border at Belladere... There were exchanges of gunfire between Haitian civilians and Dominican soldiers on the Haitian side of the border where six Haitian were wounded...

According to news reports, it all started when Dominican customs authorities were forcing Dominican carriers exiting the Dominican border in the direction of Belladere to pay proper customs fees. Some Haitian drivers opposed that decision, Le Nouvelliste Reported, which resulted into what happened.

Belladere Haiti Mayor Macklish Ledoux told the Haitian newspaper:

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This the kind of news that make you say WTF!!! But I don't make the news!!! --- Queen of Spain Letizia Ortiz who recently visited Haiti and the Dominican Republic promises to build a hospital to serve Haitians but, she is going to build it in the Dominican Republic.

Let's pause so you can digest what you just read...

NO... I am not lying...

Read this from Dominican Newspaper Listin Diario:

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Watch this video... The grandson of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic who carried out the Haitian Parsley Massacre, says he will build a wall from north to south of the Haiti-Dominican border to separate the Dominican Republic from Haiti if he is elected president in 2020...

Obsessed, like his grandfather, by the presence of Haitians on the Dominican territory, Luis Ramfis Trujillo Dominguez never misses an opportunity to express his dislike for the Haitian nationals he accuses of wanting to invade his country.

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