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The United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair was in Santo Domingo to meet with President Luis Abinader in an effort to mediate in the impasse over the construction of an irrigation canal in Haiti. The acting President of Haiti, Ariel Henry, had requested the support of Blair when meeting with him during the Saudi Arabia-Caricom summit. The canal would divert the waters of the Dajabon/Masacre River that originates in the Dominican Republic.
In protest of the intention to divert the waters, the Dominican Republic closed its border gates with Haiti. New migratory measures were implemented, including the stop to issuing new visas to Haitians and requiring all persons crossing the border to have at least biometric identification. Most Haitians crossing the official border gates on foot on market days had been doing without legal identification. Most Haitians do...
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