Dominican leaders forge consensus on Haiti

[Dolores]

The mid-week meeting of the Economic and Social Council (CES) saw President Luis Abinader and the three living former Presidents, Leonel Fernandez (1996-2000, 2004-2008, 2008-2012), Hipolito Mejia (2000-2004) and Danilo Medina (2012-2016 and 2016-2020), reach agreements on actions to be taken with regards to Haiti.

According to the spokesperson at the Presidential Palace, the President and his predecessors agreed to send a formal request to the United Nations Security Council requesting their support to reshape the UN Multi-national Mission to Support Security in Haiti and move it towards a hybrid mission with UN leadership regarding logistics and operations. The letter emphasized the growing power of the organized gangs such as Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif and the potential for transnational criminal activities, drug trafficking, and terrorism.

The letter was sent to the chiefs of state of the 15 nations currently seated in the Security Council, especially the five permanent...

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[windeguy]

Of course nothing will be done.

 

[drstock]

If they "forged" the consensus it is probably "fake news"!

 

[windeguy]

If they "forged" the consensus it is probably "fake news"!

It makes no difference either way on the outcome.

 

[CristoRey]

The PLD helped to create and facilitate the current problem with Haitians living/ working in the country illegally
and now they have come to a "consensus" with the current administration?
That's wonderful.
Have they admitted or taken any responsibility for their role in this mess?

 

[BermudaRum]

The PLD helped to create and facilitate the current problem with Haitians living/ working in the country illegally
and now they have come to a "consensus" with the current administration?
That's wonderful.
Have they admitted or taken any responsibility for their role in this mess?

No es mi culpa

 

[Fernandez]

Haiti is Gaza-like. The solutions there are ugly.

 

[miguelortiz61]

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it is all window dressing. The root cause of the problem is the consensus from within the dominican business elite: the "National Council for Compeititivity" which chose long ago to replace native dominican labor with haitian labor, saving about 2/3 of the costs associated with hiring dominicans. On the short run dominican state absorbes the costs of having a seriously underdeveloped haitian population, on the long run, the dominican corporate bosses will destroy the social fabric of the dominican society and will have to deal the the typical lawlessness and habits of the haitian population. Such fusion was tried in the past. In 1817 with the "short or ephimeral independence", which attracted more the desire of hatians to occupy the entire island. In 1822 haitians invaded the entire eastern part of the island.. well, the history is known: the cultural disparities of the invading hatians turned the dominicans from originally welcoming quietly the haitians, into an insurrection that ended with Dominican independence, the birth of a new nation, the expulsion of haitians, and 15 long years of haitian army invasions, thus consolidating the hatred of haitians by dominicans. Nothing will change those facts on the ground. If this process of forced fusion continues, it will end in another ethnic war. That´s the future the dominican elite , its business class and its political segment are sowing for its people and for themselves.