Supposedly, the translation of the video where Barbecue is on a walking machine isn’t correct. According to the guy in José Peguero’s platform, Barbecue is simply giving a review of the walking excercise machine in case someone is thinking of buying one. Excuse me for not thinking there is a very large market for walking excercise machines in Haiti and Haitians with the money to buy one are going to depend on the review of Barbecue.
I also find it interesting that he (the guy talking in José Peguero, not Peguero himself) is basing this on an análisis that was done to that video. The interest arises because that same vídeo has been shown here on DR1
and it’s widely known that several of the DR1ers have kids with Haitian women and quite a few understand Haitian Creole. Don’t anyone would think a while ago one or several of these people would had commented about that already? Not one has said anything regarding what is said by Barbecue in Haitian Creole.
Plus, originaly I thought if the video was in fact fake instead of real, by now someone would had commented that in this thread or at least put it’s legimitacy into question (something I did from the very beginning though never affirming if it’s fake or not because I don’t know if it’s, notice the title.)
The fact this isn’t the first time a thread to Dominican safety has come from Haitians in Haití (just look at the history) is what lead to the possibility this could be true. If it was of Barbecue threatening to invade Jamaica or Cuba, well not saying it couldn’t be possible, but Haitians have never invades those 2 places or anywhere else excepto the Dominican Republic on múltiple occasions.
Lastly, it’s interesting this response from the Dominican guy claiming the video is fake in José Peguero’s platform comes
after the Mayor of Dajabón took it upon himself the intensification of deporting illegal immigrants from Haiti that settled in that town.The Mayor did said that he started the intensification due to 2 factors: 1) He considers
Migración et al is too slow given previously he has asked for more help and haven’t received much from them and 2) the video of Barbecue’s threat to the DR.
I hope this isn’t another case when certain realities are lied about in the DR because it has to do with the massive numbers of illegal immigrants in the DR (such as the effect on wages -including the added cost of employees to employers that are eliminated by hiring illegal immigrants.) Some of it are part of economic theories which apparently are true everywhere in the world where capitalism exist except in tiny DR which apparently exist on a parallel universe.
One thing is undeniably true, the DR public education isn’t the best even compared to the typical public education in Latin America. The percentage of Dominicans with a less than ideal education isn’t small by any stretch of the imagination. It goes with the territory that some of those educated in the best schools/universities in the DR and universities abroad (where even what are considered normal universities there tend to outrank Dominican universities) will take advantage of the fact the average Dominican received a substandard education. Hence, denying things that are true everywhere capitalism exist.