President Leonel Fern?ndez appealed, during his state visit to Paris, to the international community to help Haiti improve its economy, the living conditions of Haitians and strengthen that country’s institutions. He said that the worsened political crisis is bad news for the DR as more Haitian citizens will choose to illegally migrate to the DR, increasing the social and economic pressures on the Dominican nation. The DR shares about a 300 kilometer frontier with Haiti. While the Dominican government doubled its patrols along the frontier, the government is aware that the only way migration will decline is with an improvement of the possibility for Haitians to find adequate employment in Haiti. While the political crisis has worsened in Haiti with the injuring at gunshot of the sister of President Preval, the List?n Diario newspaper reports that all is normal on the DR frontier with Haiti. Thousands of Haitians traveled to the Dajab?n marketplace as usual to purchase the products they later sell back in Haiti.
