2 recent stories in my 51 habitant village.
First, a haitian family along the road, that live in dirt poor conditions of course, the older sister comes back fron school around 8 a clock, walks the3 or 4 km home. Arrives on the doorstep, a young local guy, drunk, shouts abuse at her, walks up to her and punches her like 5 times in the face. The girl is 12 years old. Mother takes her to public hospital, patched up, no permanent damage. Next day mother goes into town to police station, police tell her to take a walk, or go to puerto plata to complain, they dont take haitiana complaints here......dirt poor family ( no father 5 kids), no way to get to pop. End of story, everyone knows who did it but nothing is going to happen ( unless he walks past in my house in the dark and catches an arrow in the eye ).
Second recent story. Small pueblo next to mine. No road ( ie dirt track ), luz ( that nobody pays for ), tv cable, owned by local land lord, whom everyone pays 500 pesos a month. ( how can u watch tv without luz one could ask ?).
Anyway these people want more luz ( that they dont pay for ) so they have an illegal huelga ( cos if u declare a huelga u cant be prosecuted apparently ), destroy the luz and cable posts, as well as the land owner private lines ( it is a huge finca, very wealthy ).
Next day police come round with said land lord and tells them, tough **** no more tv cable for u and I hope it s going to take ages to get luz back. Stupid campisinoes look at themselves, conscient to have shot themselves through the foot, and they all say "los haitianos did all this". Stupid ****$. Good job the authorities knew better and jailed the 5 or 6 trouble makes .
