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Anse-a-Pitre June 28, 2013 [AlterPresse] --- Merchants want help to build a market in the town of Anse-?-Pitre (Southeast) by the Haitian authorities, to enable them to better carry out their economic activities, according to statements collected by the online agency AlterPresse.
These traders and merchants complain of ill-treatment inflicted on them frequently binational market by Dominican military.
Provide Anse-?-Pitre its own market put an end to these abuses because they and they no longer have to travel to neighboring territory.
Running from Monday to Friday, the market would open at 6:00 am local (10:00 GMT), only the Dominican traders from Barahona to Para?so, Oviedo Pedernales, with the aim of promoting them the buy better products.
Yet the market is accessible to shopping and Haitian merchants at 8:00 am, for the sale and purchase of goods.
Blessed John, a native of Anse-a-Pitre trader denounces this biased practice where users are allowed to market products and Haitian merchants.
"Regularly, from 11:00 am, the Dominican military usually crowded with sticks in hand, the traders out of the market," critic Jean.
Several Haitian traders also condemn the fact that the Dominican military always put an end to their business, without waiting for the market closed.
Sometimes they are forced to go to Pedernales to liquidate their merchandise at low prices to avoid losses, says a retailer, Julia St. Louis.
The market says is a purely Dominican binational market, regrets, for his part, the spokesman of the Association of Haitian merchants and traders (Ama) Manicia Lafortune, bringing pressure from the Dominican military to chase the Haitian market Haitians and when they see fit.
In addition, "local Haitian products are not admitted to the market," she disapproves.
Elevated to a town in 1844, Anse-a-Pitre around 30 thousand inhabitants and residents.
The insecurity that reigned for more than two months in this town in the South East, begins to decline after the arrival, Friday, June 21, 2013, agents of the departmental unit of maintaining order (UDMO). [Pb pack kft rc apr 28/06/2013 0:50]
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traders come from as far away as Jamel six hours by boat for the market. Coffee beans come down from Chiotte. US Rice is the main product that is bought on the DR side along with fresh vegetables from Haiti and used clothing. Flour appears to be the main product that is taken back accross to Haiti.
Complaints at this border market, as in Dajabon and Elias Pina are that the supposed "binational" market is only on one side of the border, that Haitians are taxed, completely informally by the local guards, and have to pay for stalls.
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